Well, I came real close to giving up satellite TV two months ago.
The day is coming soon when I will rescue my TV from the aggressive onslaught on the TV.
...... I hear you.
Essentially, all we watch are occasional sporting events, and the food and home channels. And even they test our patience with their increasingly agenda driven programming.
Then there is our 10-12 episode HBO subscription, for whatever is this year’s blind squirrel good series : / In years prior, it was Rome, now it is Game of Thrones. We subscribe for the duration, and then sever ties as soon as it concludes. We always make the reason we are closing the subscription clear - that their “mature”, (when did the terms “adult” & “mature” become synonymous with gratuitous violence and/or indiscriminate sex?!) programming that runs 24/7 is horrifying. When I ask them what they think about the children who are home sick, with mom at work, their quick, assured answer is always that there are “controls” parents can use. But when I ask them if they truly believe that time/technology impaired parents can set up controls that their much more technologically adept children cannot figure out, we find that the scripted answers fall away.
We then close by offering the thought provoking idea, that to be truly adult, means understanding that children should be protected. That it is not censorship to keep gratuitous material from beaming into American homes 24/7. That adults who want to view the like in the middle of them day can most definitely figure out a way without HBO/Cinemax et al.
Just yesterday, DH offered the thought that we could just go ahead close the account now, and then buy this season’s dvd when it is released.... Yes, we would still be funding them, but at least we would not be condoning the daily onslaught : |
Dear Lord, our nation has turned from You, but please, hear us, and share Your strength and guidance as we fight to turn the tide.
Tatt
We dropped satellite a decade ago because they liked randomly giving us free movies. Nothing like sitting with the kids flipping through channels and getting Janet Jacksoned. They told us we would have to block the channels ourselves because they were going to randomly open up adult material even though we had none on our plan. We told them no thanks and never looked back.
I thought I missed the news channels until last year when I spent 2 weeks in the hospital. Nope, I don’t miss them either.