If you’re disgusted by the Playboy business and the firing of Tommy Christopher, if you don’t want to support MTV, if you don’t care to get MSNBC, please check out this post. Make a real nuisance of yourself to your representatives. It’s the only way they’ll listen.
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This would be a lot consistent with freedom of speech I think. It’s uncomfortable to be forced pay for the speech of homosocialists like Jeff Immelt I think for example who prances onto his CNBC channel what his loser GE company owns and lisps about how the global warminth are thcary thcary and that we all needth to lithen to thuperthtar Rock God Barack Obama.
oh. forced *to* pay I mean.
‘Cept nobody’s forcing you to pay for cable at all. You could always just not watch TV..
But seriously, I understand hating the bundling. It sux to pay for a bunch of channels you don’t want in order to get the one you do, but there’s a reason for their BS. Basically, hardly anyone would buy those other channels if they weren’t bundled. Thus, if it weren’t for bundling you’d still pay the same for the one good channel. They’d either drop the unpopular channels or more likely subsidize them from your payments anyway — because you really didn’t think they’d drop BET*, did you?
And somehow I don’t think we really want to get a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats even more involved in what’s on TV. Might not like the results.
*Whatever! Pick your own ‘never watch it’ channel then.
Methinks Swen has a good point… also, 100 million of us could flood the lines this second to our representative and it could easily be undone by one donation from one of those religious channels no one watches but pay for.
oh. I will copy my comment from the link over here cause of it is a reply I think to Mr. Swenson. I added a little just now though.
Realistically though Swen is right that canceling cable would a lot show that you love America unlike the dirty socialists like Jeffy Immelt what are pissing on our little country’s head.
oh. *they could charge* not they could get charge…
Hell, I’m just tossing my crappy old TV when they convert to digital. The few things I want to see I can get online.
Okay, even assuming that my not having to pay for CNN, MSNBC and so on, won’t save me money, it will stop any of my money going to those content providers, while I still get to watch the channels I do enjoy.
I’d even be willing to pay a little more for that privilege. Or do some more triage on the channels I watch only very rarely but could live without.
What I would prefer above all is a metering system: bill me for the time I am either watching TV or receiving it to my DVR. Use what I pay to reimburse the channels I watched or recorded.
When I go into a restaurant I don’t pay a few cents each for everything on the menu, I pay for what I order.
…and I see I am in agreement with happyfeet about the metering idea. I like it when that happens.
You were a lot more succinct and coherent I thought.
Me too. Now if we can just manage to figure out how to keep those dirty socialists from ever getting their smelly hands on the data and using it to see who needs to be fixed ’cause they don’t think right.
That’s a good description of how it should work in a capitalistic system, but somehow I think the FCC would step in when BET ran out of monies. It’s the “fairness”, doncha know?
“‘Cept nobody’s forcing you to pay for cable at all. You could always just not watch TV..”
Actually, Swen, I’ve pretty much decided that once my one-year deal with Comcast is up at the end of the summer, I’m getting the cable turned off. I’ve realized that I just don’t watch that much TV (most of my viewing is either movies or documentaries), and I don’t see the point of keeping cable before Comcast makes me play “Jack My Price Up”. Plus it will actually save me a few extra bucks, too.
[…] McGehee proposes an alternative plan: What I would prefer above all is a metering system: bill me for the time I am either watching TV or receiving it to my DVR. Use what I pay to reimburse the channels I watched or recorded. […]
I’m about to cancel cable because it’s full of nothing but screaming news and reality tv shows; they’re incredibly stupid, and a waste of my money. Why do some channels have to be ‘premium’ and others not? I hate sports, so I don’t consider ESPN ‘premium.’