goodbye cable?

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    Overpriced, and dumbed down to the point where it should be insulting to the viewer. The boom in number of channels back in the 90s forced networks to come up with content. How many CSI-type dramas can you produce? How many sitcoms? Not enough, so you get programming where a camera crew follows around a bride for two weeks and fabricates a narrative around a few choice moments. Or a game show where you watch people exercise and talk about their diet. Or, you'll think you're getting a witty education on current events with The Daily Show even though it's probably the most formulaic (not to mention condescending) program of them all.

    I'd bet most of your TV time right now is spent watching things you aren't interested in. How often do you notice yourself sitting there going, "ah, there's nothing else on"?

    Cancel it for a few years and then try watching it again. It will seem completely foreign to you. You won't understand the commercials or the shows, and you'll wonder when the news turned into Entertainment Tonight. My initial reaction when going back to TV after a few years was "wow, TV really sucks now!" Many of my friends experienced the same reaction. But, of course, TV always sucked. It's just hard to tell when you're accustomed to it.

    If you can't be bothered to find the shows you want (DVD, netflix, hulu, torrents) then you probably don't care about those shows as much as you think you do.

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