Reply #27: I don't watch. I dropped all but local channel cable three years ago

[Lydia Leftcoast]

and the only reasons I keep that are 1) PBS and 2) Keeping up on local weather stories (i.e. blizzards in the winter, tornadoes in the summer).

The deterioration of the cable channels (engineered by the five media companies that control everything else) is part of what is making America dumber. I remember when Bravo was all foreign films, Discovery was all science and geography documentaries, A&E was like a second PBS, and BBC America had wonderful comedies and dramas on every night.

I finally decided that it was time to downgrade my cable to local channels only plus Internet, which is actually cheaper than Internet alone.

Everything worth watching is available on Netflix or Hulu or other online sources, or, in some cases, if you have a region-free DVD player, from foreign branches of Amazon. Why pay the cable company for 200 channels (or even 50 channels) of garbage?