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I was watching the ED Show last night thanks to the JustinTV link. That is the first time I had seen Ed and I really see why people love the guy.
However, I swore off television about fifteen-years ago. It was starting to turn my stomach and I just couldn't handle the increasing commercial time and their volume. Plus, news was starting to look more and more like corporate propaganda even back then. What really got to me was paying for satellite and also having to watch commercials, not to mention the copious numbers of shopping channels and infomercials that were growing like weeds on the box. Too much income going on there for the price.
Anyway, I digress. On the Ed Show, I was seeing a few minutes of Ed and a few minutes of commercials. I was kind of shocked. Is that typical now and have people really acclimatized to that and come to accept it while paying for it?
Oh, and wow ... I have to hand it to the advertising agencies. After all these years being TV-free, many of the commercials where like opium-scented pillows suggesting a wonderful world that you might want to just leap right into, even though it does not exist ;)
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