Cool Hartmnan on RT TV, no, not kidding

[nadinbrzezinski]

His program is ON MY TV

[Jmaxfie1]

1. Wish I had cable :( n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. sometimes I do too...

I guess if they make the occasional online streaming a felony as the administration wants to do, we'll all have to totally divorce or totally engage with our corporate masters.

[Jmaxfie1]

5. That Obama is backing this makes me extremely mad.

I always try to tell my self that many of his policies are just part of the give and take of politics, but this one just strikes me as out their. I actually, living in the south, know quite a few Republicans and I've never heard outlawing on-line streaming as one of their priorities. Actually most people of any political persuasion I know are against stuff like this. This just reeks of corporate patronage.

[Newest Reality]

2. Good for you!

I'm still am glad and never regret unplugging from cable and satellite TV over fifteen years ago. Now, I could never go back. The corporate tripe aside, I couldn't stomach a few minutes of show versus a few minutes of consent manufacturing commercials that Simulate reality and present the hyperreal to the mind over and over again as if ... it is more real than real.

[Jmaxfie1]

3. yeah, really the only thing I miss are some of the news channels, but...

its not worth the cost to me.

[Newest Reality]

6. There were a few shows back then that I liked,

but just a few. The rest was crap and I ended-up channel surfing and falling into that hypnotic, alpha-state that they rely on where you do a media meditation to fill time, numb the pain, escape.

I know how many people are addicted to the media heroin, from middle-class to poor. It takes a bit of courage and a sincere attempt to quit, but there is so much more to life. Besides, I tell them, you can do the Net and get shows you like, or read, or even, if you are feeling the goosebumps and sweat of cold turkey, buy some DVD's and build your library if you can't go without. Just don't keep paying them for their corporate overthrow and having to watch commercials for that price, as well, in high volume.

At least, back in the day, we could get free TV and justify the endless onslaught of commercials with the fact that they payed for the TV. Now, the addicts watch and watch and pay and pay and get half the time filled with being sold and told what to do, think and want. That's not a deal, it is a blatant ripoff and they say drugs are bad for you?

I keep fantasizing about people unplugging the coaxial from the back of their heads in droves. That would be a real revolution and signal sent that would be hard to ignore. But it is the new opiate of the masses and serves the corporate masters well. If people saw that and canceled their cable/satellite now, it would be a revolution in itself. Some do and will. Don't think that television makes us all lemmings who follow and comply and have to have it at such a great expense, both financial and psychological.

[JDPriestly]

7. I do not want to have to pay for Fox News and other programming.

And cable is just too expensive. The basic package is cheap, but you don't get the better programs. It's either internet or cable for us. Can't afford both.