From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
    wrote   
      
   > Well the companies, and advertisers are only interested in the "hard   
   > numbers" the actual number of people who watch the shows live, and not   
   > recorded. They know that recorded shows are bad for business, because   
   > most people do the same thing you do, and fast forward through all the   
   > commercials. So the commercials that they pay big bucks for are wasted   
   > on people who watch recorded TV shows. So when a show has a rating of 6   
   > million viewers it does not matter if they have 15 more million DVR   
   > viewers. That does not really help the companies sell their products. As   
   > long as the rating system is what it is there will always be shows that   
   > are well received, with a lot of fans, cancelled early, because the hard   
   > numbers are not there!   
      
   And we just keep coming up to bang our heads against the same old brick wall   
   ... Yes, that's all true. No, that doesn't make it fair or right; it's an   
   unjust system that should be eradicated. You seem to think that the mere   
   fact that it exists makes it okay.   
      
   I watch TV because I want to see what creative people like the makers of XF,   
   Bones, House, CSI, and Fringe have come up with to entertain me and make me   
   think and feel things. To be quite honest, I'm sorry, but I don't give the   
   tiniest fraction of a SHIT what does or doesn't help companies sell their   
   products.   
      
   Besides -- if people like me are fast-forwarding through the commercials,   
   it's obviously because we're NOT INTERESTED in them. What is the point in   
   trying to force us to sit through them? We're not going to buy the products   
   anyway, because by definition, we're not interested! What do they think we   
   are, mindless zombies who will immediately run out and buy something we   
   don't need or want just because someone made us watch a stupid commercial?   
   Show the commercials to the people who *want* to see them; leave the rest of   
   us the fuck alone! You're just uselessly throwing droplets of water into a   
   gigantic fire that instantaneously vapourises them!   
      
   And shows are not 'brought to us by' the companies who buy commercial space   
   during them. They are brought to us by the actors, writers, directors,   
   producers, and crew members who work their asses off trying to make   
   something that's entertaining and worthwhile, not by a bunch of stupid   
   accountants and CEOs who sit on their asses around a table, randomly pick a   
   show to advertise on, knowing nothing about it except its ratings, and then   
   pat themselves on the back.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
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