From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>>Brian D Williams wrote:
>> I've refused to give one of the local PBS stations (WTTW channel
>> 11 Chicago) a dime since they started running commercials, that
>> and the fact I found out they pay themselves like network
>> executives.
>Ah, well, then I suppose you no longer buy newspapers either?
Actually with the exception of the Friday edition of Investors
Business Daily I don't. Chicago "newspapers" are little more than
tabloids in my eyes.
I don't mind paying for things I want, I do mind paying for things
I don't want.
If the networks can run commercials to pay for programming that's
fine. If PBS can't make the same obviously effective model work
than there's something wrong.
I'm not out to support their bad economic model.
Brian
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