Just cancelled CNN, FOX, MSNBC and all the rest.

[Clarkie1]

$47.25 a month for Comcast expanded basic just isn't worth it.

I get most of my news off the internet, and don't watch that much T.V. anyway. I still have Discovery channel, PBS, local news, and netflix.

Have $12.54 basic service now...plus my intenet cable, of course (for $45 a month).

[SharonRB]

1. Too bad you won't be able to watch Olbermann

[Clarkie1]

3. I don't watch that much t.v.

And a lot of the things I would like to see from the news shows end up on the internet anyway...and I have high-speed access for that.

[SmokingJacket]

26. I like Olbermann, but...

I've never heard him say anything I didn't already know from the Internet.

[zulchzulu]

2. You can see the usual suspects on C&L, Canofun and others

Why watch the whole show when you can watch the dreadful highlights. :->

[Clarkie1]

5. Exactly. n/t

[JuniperLea]

4. Join the club!

I dumped Comcast months ago... and I get the basic local stuff for $6.95/mo. Dumped cable internet and got DSL for $30/mo.


I hate paying someone to lie to me.

[Clarkie1]

6. My next step is to negotiate my high-speed internet service.

They might offer me a discount if I threaten to go to DSL, I think.

The cable internet has worked out pretty well so far...except the price is still a little high.l

[JuniperLea]

12. Don't let them fool you

I paid through the nose for the high speed crap... and I promise you, I cannot tell one iota of difference on DSL! I think it's all another plot to separate us from our money. Edited to say... I told Comcast I wanted to stop cable altogether and they offered me the $12.99 deal... I said, naw, I don't watch TV that much and I have Netflix, so, just can it. They said, well, how about the basic local for $6.95... I never even heard of it before! I get all the local channels, three or four PBS channels, C-Span and some channels from Chicago and other states. Damn good deal.

Sometimes you can negotiate credit card interest rates the same way;)

[SpiralHawk]

7. You score a Trifecta

Save money
Reduce your propaganda exposure
Starve the Media Borg

[Clarkie1]

8. Yep.

I'm perfectly happy with PBS, local news, maybe Discovery channel now and then and the occasional Netflix flick.

Most of anything else I might want I can get online.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Thanks for makin my stocks crash.... oh bother... :) n/t

[high density]

10. Adelphia is charging me about $53/mo.

The lineup is about 70 channels, of that I watch maybe ten channels regularly. UPN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Comedy Central, USA Network, FX, TNT, and Turner Classic Movies are about all I need.

What burns me is that our bills go up annually because ESPN, et al. keep whining for more money and I don't give a flying shit about sports.

[iconoclastNYC]

11. Google "TVTad" and "BitTorrent"

;)

[Clarkie1]

13. I download music regularly with BitTorrent.

I take it TVTad is a way to download television shows?

[iconoclastNYC]

23. Yeah

It uses an online TV schedule database and RSS and basically turns your computer into a TIVO. You tell it which programs you download and as soon as it sees it posted on any of the big BitTorrent sites it downloads it.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Good for you!!

Image from Kill Your Television

[BRLIB]

15. Good for You!

Make sure these MSM get the message!
I "pull" my news instead of having some MSM shove it down my throat!
I tell people I don't have a TV and they can't believe it!
I pay only for Cable Internet (way too much, Cox monopoly) but no other cable.
I can watch all the good stuff at crooksandliars.com anyways.
I do have an LCD monitor with a TV tuner I seldom use and a $10 portable BW TV for "emergency", but don't count those.

[mike_c]

16. I haven't had a working TV cable in 20 years...

...and don't ever want one again. It's like quitting smoking-- at first you miss it, then one day you can't believe you ever did it at all and wouldn't go back for anything. Seriously-- save yourself the $12 and ditch the rest, too.

[msongs]

17. way to go :-) and now the rich have no longer got all their channels

in the bedrooms of the....at least one person!

the money you save can be invested and earn money for your instead of "them"

Msongs
www.msongs.com/impeachbush.htm

[twiterpatted]

18. two weeks ahead of ya!.

I find myself reading more often now.

[Rainscents]

19. Dump the cable long time ago, just have local now.

I do miss KO and JS.

[demosincebirth]

20. Go to Direct TV or Dish. They have some good deal now.

[The River]

21. Just Pull The Plug

In case you missed it:

"The average American spends about one third of his or her waking life watching television. The neurological implications of this are so profound that they cannot even be comprehended in words, much less described by them. Television creates our reality, regulates our national perceptions and our interior hallucinations of who we Americans are (the best and only important tribe on the planet.) It schedules our cultural illusions of choice, displays pre-selected candidates in our elections, or types of consumer goods. It regulates holiday marketing opportunities and the national neurological seasons, which are now governed by the electrons of the illusion. We live within a media generated belief system that functions as the operating instructions for society. Anything outside of its parameters represents fear and psychological freefall to the faceless legions of within it."

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2005/12/the_simulacran_.html

You want to escape the real "Matrix"?

It starts with an OFF button.

[Berry Cool]

22. Oh, what a heap of baloney.

TV doesn't control anyone unless they LET it control them. I know I am not a passive consumer of TV. I choose what I watch and don't watch. TV doesn't create my reality, reality creates my reality. I gather my national perceptions from various places, not just TV. As for the rest, it doesn't pick and choose for me. I choose to expose myself to various sources of information and then decide for myself.

TV is not some evil poison...it's just a tool like any other. It can't form your entire belief system unless you let it.

[ecstatic]

31. too much internet use is just as bad, actually worse nt

[Ilsa]

24. Good for you! Besides, all the really good clips of news and

comedy are posted on the internet. Did you know you can watch NBC Evening News on the internet at 9pm CST?

[DanCa]

25. Good for you you'll be much happier.

Seriously I wont watch that swill allthough my old man wont let me cancell his dish network.
You'll be alot happier without hearring the drunken ramblings of tweety and his ilk.

[catmandu57]

27. I keep the expanded package for my wife

but, I've blocked out all the offensive fake crap from our tube. I don't watch much tv, even during the evenings when she's home if there is something she wants to see I'll come in here and turn the computer on.
Now when and if ever they get a la carte programming.

[nolabels]

28. You actually watch TEEVEE?

Your kidding aren't you? :rofl:

[Jim Warren]

29. Fuck that shit, yeah

No TV for going on 5 years, never looked back on that fucking time-sink.

[nolabels]

30. I gave it up because of the hypnotic affects it induces

But the fact of it giving a person much more free time for all kinds of things including things like reflection is another big point about giving the crap up.


It's just like tobacco and booze, after awhile you don't even notice that you gave it up but only later on you notice how stupid it is that you engaged in it at all.