Make spoilers of TV pay for digital switch

Nikolas D. Skalkotos, Las Vegas

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 | 2:01 a.m.

Let’s talk a little about TV evolution:

I am referring to the old “low-tech” household fixture that used to be in the living room for the family’s quality time, entertainment, education and other beneficial activities.

No, I am not talking of today’s “high-tech” idiot box that is found in every room of a house and has been transformed into an exclusive vehicle for advertisements, deception, violence, porn and vulgarity — not to mention the prime brainwashing agent for exploitative corporate America as well as for the public’s deception by the two major political parties.

Now, as if this detrimental evolution of an instrument that was for the benefit of the family were not enough, corporate greed is forcing the American public to convert it into something totally unnecessary for the consumer but a lot more profitable for those who control and manipulate the nation’s TV industry fields.

In closing, my question is:

Because, in my opinion, the digital transformation of this once useful electronic home appliance is nothing more than a face lift that benefits only corporate America and not the public, why should the American consumer be forced to pay for the transition to digital from analog? Why don’t the real beneficiaries (the TV industry manipulators) pay for it?