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Don’t forget that BIG MEDIA elected the present “socialist” regime and a large segment of the population still doesn’t know that this clown that we have as President is better described as a radical communist “want to be.”

The population is controlled by big media and it is a necessary part of the equation to complete the destruction of the United States as we know it.

Obama can’t let BIG MEDIA fail, he has to keep the propaganda going strong. Chavey in Venezuela taught Obama you have to control the media to be successful.

There never was such a thing as ‘free TC’. Someone was always paying fit and that someone was US. The networks charged the advertisers for broadcasting the ads which sold their products. We the people who bought those products actually covered the cost of the advertising by paying increased prices for those products whether or not we watched those TV ‘shows’ that the products were advertised on.

Those who never watched ‘free’ TV were still paying for it because the cost of whatever products they bought included additional money for the advertising.

Talk about involuntary slavery and extortion.

In some countries such as Britain, the cost of ‘free’ TV is covered by sales and usage taxes and the government alone decides what to put on TV. The people are still forced to pay for stuff they never watch via the various sales and use taxes.

In American we have at least a little control over what is broadcast, because if the show doesn't have enough viewers, it then gets dropped by the advertisers which means we the people are no longer paying fort it via the increased prices of the products we buy. Unfortunately, good shows are often dropped early when their ‘demographics’ start to suggest a declining audience, and we the people lose out anyway.

Ultimately, a ‘pay per view’ model with a REASONABLE cost structure is the fairest because no one is forced to pay excessive prices for the products which we buy simply to cover their increased advertising costs.

This itself is not altogether desirable because without advertising, we won't see new desirable products being invented and sold because no one will even know of their existence.

There is no simple answer to all the problems and it seems that a combination of both advertiser supported and pay per view will allow for the best programming and introduction of new products.