Originally Posted by Crompsin

I must be dumb as a brick here because this whole TeeVee switch thing seems like trivial bullshit. Don't we have an "economic crisis?"

Is television really such a huge problem for everybody that they can't live without it and will freak out if they don't get a magic decoder box for free?

Seeing as how I don't own a television, I'm at a loss as to what it is so very important about broadcast TeeVee that people gotta have it now-now-now.

Jerry Spring and Judge Judy?

Cable and dish TeeVee are what most lower and middle class types have anyway, right?