[MacDV] January 1, 2009 Doomsday Plan

Brian Olesky brian4 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 19 06:53:39 PDT 2005


How does the BBC work without commercials? Somebody has to foot the bill.
Taxpayers?

Brian

On 7/19/05 1:29 AM, "Paul Moortgat" <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:

> BBC work without commercials.
> 
> Paul Moortgat
> 
> On 19 Jul 2005, at 06:24, Brian Olesky wrote:
> 
>> On 7/18/05 5:20 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> and that other guy. No TV. Sure...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Actually I'm close to being there, I'm down to a couple hours of
>>> TV a week,
>>> and that's normally PBS.  When I was younger I used to watch a
>>> *LOT* of TV,
>>> now it basically just grates on my nerves.  I can't stand all the
>>> commercials.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Before you go trashing those commercials, remember that they're the
>> reason
>> you have "free" TV. The same free TV that several people in this
>> thread say
>> is the only TV they'll watch, and the only TV available to the
>> "underclass."
>> 
>> TV commercials are just the large (and small) corporations'
>> contribution to
>> giving us the "free" TV we've watched since we were kids. If you
>> don't like
>> the commercials, don't watch.
>> 
>> Brian
> 
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