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Rant: A disturbing new trend
I’m looking at an ABCNews page about Dick Cheney and click on the short video snippet expecting to see him sneering out some horrible lie (why do I do this to myself) when I’m presented with some screeching woman going on about her potato chips. I closed the page immediately, but felt the searing pain of commercial television coming through my monitor.
This is why we killed the TeeVee back in 2001. I don’t mind a visual or even some low key video advertising, but the screaming car salesman crap? I have to submit to that before I watch your 30 second news clip? Sorry. Not for me. I know I know, you say “Well Spence, you’re getting all of this for free…” – True. I get ABC’s corporate news feed where they tell me what they want me to know for free… what the hell was I doing there anyway?
Ah. Deb reminds me I forgot to mention movies. We took the girls to watch The Awful Truth the other night. Got there early and had to sit through 30 minutes of television advertising. Not the “Made for Movies” badass ads, the crappy food commercial stuff.
Del Monte Cinema 9, you won’t see me again.
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Aug 31 2009
I always hate those ads before movies. They should put on TV or something while you’re waiting….
Or the special features of the movie… that’d be cool.
Sep 04 2009
You are getting it all for free? An internet connection is free now?
I wonder if cable TV will soon be free too. I guess they have to give us some incentive to listen to Dick tell us why legalizing torture makes the US safer and better in general. And more free too!
Sep 12 2009
Oliver: The absolute last thing I want to see at the theater is television. I’d actually prefer it if they had a bar and a lounge. Some conversation, a cocktail, some munchies, and then a movie. Sitting in my seat, unable to carry on a conversation with the person right next to me over the blaring sound and light of a fricking Doritos ad is totally unacceptable.
Seth: Yes, you’re right, I actually pay for the series of tubes – all the more reason for me to avoid commercials. I still find it amazing that people actually pay for standard cable service which is 85% advertising.
We are the Sheeple.