And the movie studio execs wonder why nobody is showing up at the movies. I pay about $68.00 per month for satellite that includes over a hundred channels worth of crap. I may find two or three things worth watching in a week. I have satellite in my house simply for a couple members of my family who like to watch a couple of shows. When I'm able to get broadband in my area, or when I get enough users on my FreeWan cell, I'll download these two or three shows and cancel my satellite service.
At this moment, I pay my satellite provider about $60.00 per month for entertainment that's not been satisfactory, as well as endless reruns. I'm sure tmany others feel the same way. I'll have a choice very soon. I've paid the cartels enough. Now it's time for me to get value for my money, and that'll be done by downloading stuff that I find entertaining. I 've already paid for the entertainment, so now I'm going to receive it. But ironically, the stuff I currently download comes not from the cartel-owned studios, but from independent amateur producers.
I watched Episode 13 of "The Scene" a couple of days ago. It was a nail biter. It's not filesharers that are causing a decline in paid viewership; it's trashy product, as Madonna describes it. One of the cartel's favourite superstars, she's quoted in This Is London as saying, "TV is trash. I was raised without it. We don't have magazines or newspapers in the house either." And this also goes to show you what many, including media insiders, think of lamescream media.
As far as I;m concerned, most (but not all) TV, radio, and news print have lost their credibility. I personally no longer watch CNN, Fox, or any of the other "newsspeak" stations, except when I'm trying to figure out in which direction the Korporate or Government minions want us to go next.
For many years, I've known that most presidential press conferences are like all-start wrestling: they're staged. When Clinton was president, he was caught red-handed staging the straightening of an American flag at a soldier's grave. Now Bush is president, he was caught red-handed rehearsing a "press conference" using American troops in Iraq. Does anyone want to know why the White House needs a press secretary? It's simple. The press secretary (or assistants) takes questions from members of the lamescream media who have press passes before the press conference begins. The questions are prescreened and placed on a list. When the press conference begins, the "reporters" at the press conference are given a list of questions that they're allowed to ask. If a reporter asks a question that's not on the list, he or she can lose the privilege of having a White House press pass.
The news that I trust comes from the blogosphere which represents groups of people who act as investigative reporters. Yes, lies have been found on blogs, but when that happens, there are usually many replies to counter the untruths.
The blogosphere represents balanced news from several different viewpoints. It represents choice. Before I actually trust a blog, I read and reply to blogs. If my reply shows up, I'm more apt to trust the blog. My test reply usually states an opinion or fact that's on the other side of an issue tpromoted by the particular blog. If, however, I find my reply removed, buried, or otherwise censored, I go elsewhere.
Getting back to the White House press conferences, I heard abgout a time when the president 'recognized' a reporter who wasn't even at the press conference. To be fair, I didn't see that particular press conference so I don't know if it's true. If anyone has heard of this happening, please provide specific information so it can be duly investigated. I bring this up to show the true power of the citizen reporter.
I find that computer networks such as the Internet provide much better entertainment and much wider and balanced news than the lamescream media could ever dream of. It was from the Internet that I learned about other US political parties. For a long time, I thought the only two real political parties were the Democratic-Republican and Reform Party. But by using the Net, I found out about the Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party and many others. As the Democratic-Republican party loses what little credibility it has, we the people here in the US can find other parties that represent the wishes of those whom the mainstream politicians have forgotten - the people.
As far as entertainment goes, the computer networks such as FreeWan, the Internet, and others offer millions of non-cartel channels. The reason the government-cartel alliance is fighting so hard to regulate the computer networks is because they're slowly losing the hearts and minds of the people. Right now, many people are downloading cartel-produced crap because they don't want to throw away good money by buying it.
And as they do this, they run into original stuff that's not made by the cartels.
These days, I'm hooked on the non-cartel entertainment and news that's now available online.
I hardly waste my time with the crap on satellite.
