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I haven't looked at broadcast tv in so long, it's pathetic (or I am).

I don't mean by that, that I'm only looking at cable/satelite, either 'cause I don't have a satelite hookup and I can't get the cable company to run a half mile of line to just me gratis (and the racoon and bobcat aren't interested in splitting the bill either). A few years back, the Boston stations started getting weaker and a new lead in from the antenna didn't help so we just phased broadcast tv out of our lives (I get weather from my dsl hook-up and my news from Insty [well all the news that matters anyway]) and entertainment is done with DVDs.

Tell me again why the media are so important? I think I've forgotten...

2 LOL - MGA - the media aren't important at all to people who are online.  It's the ones who aren't that will be hit very hard by this. 

Since my parents and sister fall into the "un-connected" category I know there are many people out there with no internet presence (much as we'd like to think everyone is online) and they only have television.  I feel very sorry for them since soon it will be only radio. 

In other words, the government  is blithely sending a whole group of its citizens back in time.  Amazing thing that... and since these are the least connected people - their anger will never be heard.  That might be a very large mistake.

3  Ah, T, if Uh-uhbama wins there is no problem. People won't have electricity to turn on the TV.

4 Peter - I figured he's want them to have tee-vee so they can all watch his greatness.  If they can't see him - he'll lose his appeal.

5 If Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason were on I'd watch way more TV. As it is I only watch TV to see my Dallas Cowboys getting there asses kicked again.

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Well now wait a minute.. I think I get it as part of the master plan. If there isn't any TV and lots of people aren't online and there's only radio, the President can go on radio to tell us the only thing we have to fear is fear itself just like Joe Biden told us Roosevelt did on tv.

Right?