Your father is correct. TV cameras today are $200K, lighting and news casters cost a bundle and set designers need money for their families. Thus, ads are annoying but productive.
The problem is that ads have become louder, longer and more indecent. Thus, it is best to keep kids aways from tv’s and computers and movies. Well, that’s no fun for kids. How about a dvd player with good movies and The Rifleman with Chuck Connors episodes?
Except today you can buy a camera that will do 99% of the $200K camera's job for 0.5% of the price and surf the net, give turn-by-turn driving directions, and make phone calls in the bargain. Not to mention being far more likely to be in the right place at the right time.
lighting and news casters cost a bundle and set designers need money for their families
Sounds like there's a pencil in need of sharpening, to use an archaic metaphor.