Sun, 17 Jun 2007

Sunday Morning Television . . .

I'm normally not up very early on Sunday mornings and, even less frequently, turn on the television. By early, I mean before 6:00 AM (yeah, I know, but it has been hot and I haven't been sleeping much lately -- a different blog). I wanted to find some news, but rather than go directly to one of the local channels or CNN, I decided to click around and see what was available. I was struck by the number of paid programs at that hour. I really wonder how many people are watching at this hour. Let's say you get up early like me. Do you say, "Wow! I think I'll look for a better exercise machine or diet method or steam wrinkle remover". Or you are just ending your Saturday evening and you and your date decide to watch a little sales effort after a night of dancing . . . hmmm . . .

These programs are generally remakably silly. Does anyone really suppose that someone will sit for 30 minutes listening to a sales pitch? I suppose that these might be the same people who go to the state fair to see the mop salesmen. And I guess that you can take whatever form of entertainment you wish.

One other thing struck me. We have a cable service which displays the name of the program when you click to a new channel. Most say Paid Program, but others actually have a program title. This means that you might not realize that the program you are watching is a very long advertisement and sit and watch something thinking that it is a new or entertainment program. Not much chance for most of us since these programs are really inane and provide a real example of pressure sales.

Needless to day, I found some headline news and soon turned off the TV to sit here and write this early in the morning.

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