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SickOfTheOnePct

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17. That's not the same thing

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #13)

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 07:09 PM

Sep 2014

Being regulated doesn't make cable the "people's airwaves", mostly because cable has nothing to do with airwaves.

Lots of commodities are regulated, but that doesn't mean they belong to the people.

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How Many F#&^ing Commercials Do We Have To Bear [View all] rsmith6621 Sep 2014 OP

That's why ann--- Sep 2014 #1

As one of my mentors said to me Boom Sound 416 Sep 2014 #2

You don't have to bare it. Just turn it off. (nt) bigwillq Sep 2014 #3

You want to write a check for a few hundred thousand and maybe all the commercials will go away. CBGLuthier Sep 2014 #4

The ads are only affordable by large corporations, because of the ludicrous pay scales mainly.... Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #10

Cable is not the people's airwaves n/t SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2014 #12

Au contraire, mon Cherie. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #13

That's not the same thing SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2014 #17

The basis for state and local regulation of cable is not that the airwaves are public onenote Sep 2014 #18

Of course it is new law. That is the point, there needs to be new law. Call it radical if you will. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #20

There never will be a law allowing wages for all media employees (or the employees of certain) media onenote Sep 2014 #22

You're still letting rich people tell you how to think and what to feel? N/t Taitertots Sep 2014 #5

Don't bare it; they can't see you anyhow. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #6

giggle cwydro Sep 2014 #14

when cable started it was movies only no commercials..... spanone Sep 2014 #7

when cable started it was retransmissions of commercial broadcast television stations onenote Sep 2014 #21

The "commercial television model" has been superseded by cable... Cooley Hurd Sep 2014 #8

Matt Lauer makes 20 million a year, how can you pay that without licking the boots of the Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #9

The second half hour is the worst. flamingdem Sep 2014 #11

That's primarily why I don't watch professional football anymore. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #15

Watch via the internet. SheilaT Sep 2014 #16

What are these F#&^ing Commercials you speak of? hunter Sep 2014 #19

None Le Taz Hot Sep 2014 #23

originally free tv undergroundpanther Sep 2014 #24