COST OF TV
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Published: Thursday, November 23, 2017 08:26
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by John Campbell
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My wife is upset today because her soap operas are not being recorded. The local CBS channel has blocked Dish from receiving their signal, and since I have Dish satellite services I will not get this channel until their dispute is settled. I did not record NCIS last evening either, which makes me upset. Not upset with Dish but with the channel that suddenly I cannot receive. It happened before with NBC and then ABC and, while I do not understand the negotiations taking place, the bottom line is that the customer is paying the price until it is resolved. I could put up an antenna and get the channel, which is aired free, but when I pay another party to transfer a cleaner signal to my home I have to pay for the signal (Dish) and also the free signal, which is not free anymore. I really do not understand why a TV station would charge for its free signal when that distribution greatly enlarges its area for broadcast and advertising. It would seem that they should be paying Dish for the service.
KILLING IN AMERICA finis
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Published: Monday, November 20, 2017 19:52
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by John Campbell
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A teenager takes a knife to school and slashes as many of his classmates as he can. A man parks a truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil in front of a federal building and blows it up. A man shoots everyone he sees from a tower on a college campus. A young man kills his 4-month-old daughter because she is crying. We have seen this over and over again and still are surprised when it happens. Killing a large number at one time is sensational, but killing a large number one or two at a time gets very little air time in the media. There have been 600 killed in Chicago this year but very little coverage in the national media. It would be terrible if ratings were the cause of the difference in coverage.
