I know for a fact that it isn’t. The difference is I’m not just being a grumpy old man, I’ve actually taken the time to bother to understand how things work. I’ve taken the time to figure out that the broadcast networks don’t matter, that at their best they get about 10% of the population watching them COMBINED, that what is or isn’t on them Saturday mornings has absolutely no impact at all on what kids (or adults) watch at any give moment. That I (and any kid in America) can watch EVERY cartoon you think the nanny state fights against RIGHT NOW without even OWNING a TV. You’re obsessing about how artifacts from the past are interacting with the now without understanding what now is.
Kids can watch MORE of the cartoons you think are so precious now than YOU DID, unedited, and without commercials. Don’t mourn for them, if cartoons are your yardstsick for measuring freedom they’re living in a better world.
The SHARED experience and routing/ritual of this nation no longer exists. Just as people no longer buy their music, they let it fly at them randomly, eternally.
It’s all the same right? Like how microwaved meals taste just like the old way?
I WILL be happy when newspapers are no longer home delivered (even for free) daily, delivering OLD news (and purchased propaganda) in the most inefficient manner possible. I will also be happy when the talking heads news programs of Today, Good Morning America, et al and their evening counterparts CBS Evening News et all are gone.
That wasn’t the business model of old and there is no reason to perpetuate it in the internet age.