You don’t realize how many people are addicted to television until that shit gets taken away from them. People in New York and New Jersey were shitting themselves yesterday because the Fox affiliates programming had been ‘de-licensed’ from their local cable television provider.
Its easy to posit News Corporation, the owner of Fox networks and their affiliates for making their demands too great to the cable companies that license their content. Fox also went the grimy route by suspended their internet sites from those using the cable television provider’s browsers.
For someone like myself who is immersed in the interconnected networks all this chicanery means very little to me. There’s a stream of torrents for me to catch the wave with if I really needed to view Fox’ programming. But I didn’t. And I survived. I would have loved to watch professional football or the MLB playoffs but instead I went for a walk in Central Park.
Instead of playing the ‘Who Shot John’ game with the networks or the cable TV provider I turned them both off.
Anyone know who won yesterday?
I did.
You know the Matrix already has us on lock. The majority of us are addicted to our tv’s and internets. Not only do we pay top dollar for cable but we have to pay for cable just to get regular tv or your local channels. We buy HD tv’s but if u don’t get the HD cable package you are assed out. The corporations have us and we may be stuck like this forever.
I Ono
I know that walk was beautiful yesterday & it was also healthy. You could have been on your couch drinking a 40, eating something fried & greasy watching the game. Instead you got some outside air(which in the NYC will pra’li kill you) & you had some contact with real people. DP you got the victory yesterday
Unplugging FTW!
Just say fuck you to the pro sports narcotic and you’ll be free forever.
Less television is always a good thing.
Good thing i dont give a shit about baseball or football… as long as Basketball stays on MSG, TNT, and ESPN, i’m good.
I think Jaislayer was looking in my window on Sunday. WASSUPWITHAT?