At 10:26 10-3-01 -0500, John 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*.
We *do* get money for that? That's odd: none of my bank statements show any
money coming in from the media companies. <grin>
>Its called the television program or radio program that you're watching.
But then we're paying twice for watching a program: through commercials and
through our electricity bill (electricity isn't free).
Here's a thought: if we have to pay *them* to watch something *we* want to
watch (a show), *they* should pay *us* for watching something they want us
to watch (commercials).
>Its not like media companies can produce and broadcast these things for free!
True, but they make considerably more money from commercials than it costs
to produce a tv show. Maybe we should share the profits 50/50: 50% for the
networks, 50% to the audience.
Jeroen
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