At 9:01 AM -0800 11/20/01, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: >There's a pretty easy way to keep from being offended by these >commercials--don't watch them. With the exception of the occasional >news event I've avoided commercial TV for some years now and nothing >I've seen lately causes me to believe I've been culturally deprived >of much. We recently reconnected to the cable and once in a while I >get talked into watching some new show--I am usually shocked at how >banal they have become. Perhaps they always were and I just didn't >notice. Hear hear! One night about 11 years ago some guy called George Bush appeared on my screen. I exclaimed I wouldn't have such rubbish in the house, loaded the TV into the back of the car and donated it to my trainee the next morning. I never missed it and have never had a TV since. The radio is going next! JD
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