First, it was a practice that competing companies would not have ads that ran immediately after one another. Well that must have changed since, as an example, last night I watched four different automobile companies advertisements were running together in the same break. Maybe it is the auto mall of the air? Isn't the fact that some of the ads are stuck in the middle of the break, be of some concern? Well I just think that they are so worried that no one will buy a new car, that they are pressured to run as many ads as they can, in the best spots that are available. So they take the best ones that they can get.
The day time programing consists mainly of talk shows now and they all seem to have the same basic concept. It is mostly syndicated shows that have a group of people yelling at each other and making outrageous comments about each other. Do those companies that will authenticate parentage of a child do work for normal people or is all of their work for TV shows? Do they ever check to see if the women are the actual mother? Anything is possible and the weirder the better for the shows. They all have to get the participants from the same group and so many are made by the same company in the same studios. Do they actually separate these people before and after the show? In other words, do they have separate dressing rooms for the people or separate make up rooms? Is it like pro wrestling where they have just one room for all the people to get ready?
As long as we depend on the advertising, to keep television free will have these questions about what is shown. This is not bad because it makes it possible for us to choose and when we really get tired of advertising we do have choices. We can turn off the set or better yet, find those stations that depend on the public for direct support. Public Television, including PBS(the Public Broadcasting Service) and independent public stations, do fill this role.
It is either watch and suffer or just turn off the volume and ignore them.
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