Beyond Netflix: Where Your Shows Are Hiding

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bambiboom

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Gentlemen?,

As an experiment in sanity I've not watched any broadcast television for the last three months, instead relying for news completely on the immense choices of free and low cost streaming services including> five online newspapers, several magazines, journals, blogs, and for entertainment, Netflix streaming with a side order of YouTube for a particular British program and Hulu for two "fake news"programs only. Radio streaming is also a delight, and I listen to classical music radio from both coasts of the US, the UK, and Holland.

In this way, I was able to almost completely avoid royal babies, discount political posturing, general hyper- fear mongering, and most importantly of all- advertising. Reality has it's positive points- it's surprisingly calm and quiet. My sense of the shift to content streaming is that there is a massive ground swell of opposition to the intensity and limitations of pre-selected, pre-scheduled, hyper-commercialised content.

In the late 70's, when living in England, I very nearly didn't see any television for more than five years, and when I did it was the BBC / ITV before British television and radio deteriorated into the corruption of advertising and the sensationalism inspired by the desperate rating hunt and the Dollar Grin. Still, it never sank as quickly and to such depths as broadcast media has in the US. It was a lesson in the potential for sanity and media intelligence not forgotten.

It doesn't even require scratching the surface of popular opinion to understand the vigour of hatred today for the rigid manipulative stupidity of commercial media and given the immensity of choices that can be called up on the Intertubes, I see a future brightened by the prospect that everything that I see appearing on a screen and hearing from speakers is of what, whence, and when I choose.

The public is voting with their keyboards and traditional media on every level will learn to fear that encouraging democracy.

For example, at a cost of about $35 /month (Internet service plus Netflix), I am declaring my own network with a viewership of one and with 100% perfect ratings>

Cheers from the 'BBN",

BambiBoomNetstream
 
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