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In the early days of TV, when the first broadcast licenses were being granted, there was a legislative proposal to make advertising on TV illegal. It was defeat
by leephillips 5y ago
In the early days of TV, when the first broadcast licenses were being granted, there was a legislative proposal to make advertising on TV illegal. It was defeated, resulting in a century of TV that was largely a wasteland in the service of the tobacco and fast food industries. We have a political choice.
- srswtf123 5y ago> We have a political choice. Do we though? It seems to me that a few very wealthy people have choices. The rest of us are simply along for the ride.
- stickfigure 5y agoWhat do you imagine the alternative world of 100% ad-free television would look like? Hundreds of channels of PBS? I think that is naively optimistic.
- leephillips 5y agoI don’t know what it would have looked like, obviously. But I think it would have been better than what we got. Even having just two or three PBS-type channels and subtracting the rest would have been an improvement.