[Vermont Lt]

If you have the ability to discern between crap and reality, you don’t have to give up TV. You simply control it, so it doesn’t control you.

[TexasGator]

Amen!

[marktwain]

If you have the ability to discern between crap and reality, you don’t have to give up TV. You simply control it, so it doesn’t control you.

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Good for you if you can handle it.

Some people can handle alcohol. Winston Churchill could and did.

Some people can handle heroine, or cocaine.

Some, I am sure, can handle television, as supplied by the networks and cable.

Life without TV works better for me.

[a fool in paradise]

Every channel has advertising. Even pay-tv channels have advertising. Even paid premium channels have advertising for revisionist history on Anita Hill and Dan Rather global warming and every other bit of nonsense.

[PROCON]

If you have the ability to discern between crap and reality, you don’t have to give up TV. You simply control it, so it doesn’t control you.

YES!

Discernment is the key here.

I did get rid of my expensive cable 1 1/2 years ago and chose a better, cheaper option in Sling TV and HD over-the-air TV for local channels.

It does amaze and frustrate me that too many think their TV has some control over them.

It shouldn't unless you allow it to.