On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Erik Reuter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:26:00AM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> > At 03:53 PM 3/10/01 +0100 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> > >A thought occured to me. Shouldn't we get money for the intrusion into our
> > lives
> > >called commercials?
> >
> > Ummmmm........... you already *do*.
> >
> > Its called the television program or radio program that you're watching.
> >
> > Its not like media companies can produce and broadcast these things
> > for free!
> >
>
> True, they can't produce them for free now. But some day, I
> hope...when making a video clip becomes as easy as making a web page
> is today. When you don't need actors and instead use realistic people
> rendered entirely by computer.
Yes, but I *like* seeing the same human actor do different things, and
age, and be familiar 10 or 15 years later. I *like* feeling good about
Lynne Thigpen having a regular job on prime-time television. I *like*
having a mild crush on Noah Wylie. And I also like just enough of the
commercials on the shows I'm watching to put up with the ones I don't; and
I also like the fact that every hour, there are several opportunities for
me to bolt for the bathroom without losing much of anything worthwhile.
(I have to time these things a lot more carefully when I'm watching
PBS....)
Julia
