Do I have the right not to have my ears blasted out by commercials that feature audio three times as loud as that of the program that I am trying watch?

/agrees

Hey when you're done with that can I have it? I have a feeling it's going to be historical.

bronyaur1: Do I have the right not to have my ears blasted out by commercials that feature audio three times as loud as that of the program that I am trying watch?

THIS.

Good luck with that. It has a projected lifespan of about 5 minutes.

Sounds like they had a LEAN/Six Sigma event at their office...

Viewers are just numbers used to sell ad space.

bronyaur1: Do I have the right not to have my ears blasted out by commercials that feature audio three times as loud as that of the program that I am trying watch?

We can only hope.

\I hope a little farther, myself. I would rather see House ride an Aprilla, drink Evian, watch Days of a Our Lives, and eat Cheetos than have commercials. If TV characters would just do that so we don't have to have commercials, that would be so much better. BTW, no, I don't want the characters being commercials, just eating normal stuff or drinking normal stuff, and have that be all the advertising we see on TV.

illiterate_chimp: Viewers are just numbers used to sell ad space.

You hit the nail right on the head. Editorial draws them in, Sales sells ad space.

Do I have the right to forcibly make them air non-shiatty T.V. shows?

"Programming worth watching" significantly absent from the list.

Guess I'll keep on not watching TV for the foreseeable future.

It's a MAN, baby!

Quantumbunny:
\I hope a little farther, myself. I would rather see House ride an Aprilla, drink Evian, watch Days of a Our Lives, and eat Cheetos than have commercials. If TV characters would just do that so we don't have to have commercials, that would be so much better. BTW, no, I don't want the characters being commercials, just eating normal stuff or drinking normal stuff, and have that be all the advertising we see on TV.

Actually, there has been predictions that your hope will be the future of advertisement thanks to systems like tivo that skip over such annoyances.

hey consider your asses lucky.

in europe, you have to pay monthly just for the privelege of owning a tv (even if you dont watch it).

by the way...

does anyone know why fark has begun censoring awesome political flamewars even to the point of deleting (for non-tfers) the story about the japanese soldier that missed ghw bush in WWII?

wtf?

I want the right to have less reality tv shows. I want the right to have those who green light movies and tv shows to be people who are connected with common people, not those who live in New York or California. Those two locations may laugh at the sitcom 'Cavemen', but I only know one person in reality who watches that show, and I think he watches it only because everyone else hates it.

Remember a few years ago when the news would occasionally do stories about pop-up ads? I've noticed they stopped doing that ever since their own stations started putting pop-up ads on their shows.

jimpoz: Remember a few years ago when the news would occasionally do stories about pop-up ads? I've noticed they stopped doing that ever since their own stations started putting pop-up ads on their shows.

I figured they stopped doing those stories because pop-up ads were old news. Kind of like how they stopped talking about the Challanger Explosion or how baby Jessica fell down the well.

Do I have a right not to have that farkin' Billy Mays yell at me? I refuse to buy a product when they have idiots like him promoting them. There are other products on the market that work equally well & don't have their spokesperson yelling at people.

I couldn't help but notice this:

This week's stats

* 26: Number sick of Mitt Romney stories
* 18: Number upset over missing midnight to 6 a.m. TV listings
* 11: Number of people unhappy with grammar mistakes
* 7: Number upset by sexy lingerie ads

Laugh out loud.

You have the SAG strike to thank for the "reality shows" because the people on those shows are just actors that don't carry a SAG card. Oh what wonders of idiocy they'll come up with due to the WGA strike...

There's no such thing as "reality tv" becuase nothing on tv is real. Even the news is produced.

...and the only right you have as a viewer is to change the channel or turn off the set.

This is BS. Television has nothing to do with your rights as a free man or woman. This kind of crap cheapens the real bill of rights.

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WTF why would I want to do that? to see her cankles?....I can tell already she is a man/pig

bronyaur1: Do I have the right not to have my ears blasted out by commercials that feature audio three times as loud as that of the program that I am trying watch?

You have the right to get a PVR.

I'm convinced that commercials are so retarded these days because only the retards are watching. Everyone else is fast-forwarding over them.

Viewers' Bill Of Right :

We the people, yadi yada, divers alarum...

1) We have the right to use our PVR, provided that we add 2 minutes to recording of new shows that the network is trying to push hard. If we forget and miss the ending, it is our fault for using a ad-money robbing devil machine that is a PVR.

2) We have the right to watch shows without a story per say, or if there is one, it takes a season to develop but it will leave us with more questions than answers. This used to be the right of daytime TV watchers, but it is now everyone's right! All Hail Network Execs!

3) We have the right to wait two or three week, unannounced, between shows for no other reasons than there is not enough recorded show to last a season.

4) We have the right (and the privilege) to watch people, picked especially for their mental illness and their poor social skills, fight it out for money in reality TV and pretend that they are normal people when they do.

5) We have the right to watch botched series finales, including the trilling missing scenes.

6) We have the right to endure new concepts that don't make sense on multiple network at once. The Singing Bees and Don't Forget the Lyrics? Gold Jerry! Gold!

7) We have the right to believe in obviously staged or otherwise pitiful "fight" between reality shows judges.

There you go... Those rights should get us going for the next few years, they served us so well before.

Just so long as I have the right to sit down and eat dinner in front of the TV (we dont really have a dining area) for 45 damned seconds without a farking ad talking about mucus!

Oh, not going to happen is it.

Mucinex, because we have made you too sick to eat for 6 months

Can I has right to not see the same commercial three times during a single half-hour show?

Turn off the TV and go do something, you weeners.

You have the right to turn off your goddamned tv if you don't like what you are watching.

mayotte: Can I has right to not see the same commercial three times during a single half-hour show?

I'd settle for not seeing the same commercial back to back.

I thought the quote was, "We distort, you decide."

Quantumbunny: bronyaur1: Do I have the right not to have my ears blasted out by commercials that feature audio three times as loud as that of the program that I am trying watch?

We can only hope.

\I hope a little farther, myself. I would rather see House ride an Aprilla, drink Evian, watch Days of a Our Lives, and eat Cheetos than have commercials. If TV characters would just do that so we don't have to have commercials, that would be so much better. BTW, no, I don't want the characters being commercials, just eating normal stuff or drinking normal stuff, and have that be all the advertising we see on TV.

Until everybody in the show is wearing clothing like a NASCAR jumpsuit and the ads break the flow of the narrative itself by being placed into frame and taking that method away from the directors to focus more on the money than the show. Then it'll become a major problem.

I'll stay with commercials, but limit them to so many minutes an hour but break with the half-hour limits. It's not good but it could cause more money through competition with other businesses. And stop those annoying half-screen bugs that fill the TV screen nowadays.

Viewer bill of rights

ethical journalism

Fox network TV

mind implodes

Not first, but the hell with it.


Knows how this ends.

What's with all the bracketed interpretation of the points? She thinks her own readers are so stupid they can't understand the originals?

Basically all of the "rights" are to justify the news director's existence anyway.


skaya mind implodes

Dan Rather would like to talk to you.

We might as well have a TV viewers Bill of Rights, because the one we used to have is farking gone.

"You have a right to service" [we keep you in mind as we work]

Then serve us a little Melissa Theuriau:

* "You have a right to positive news" [we seek to inspire the human spirit even as we report negative news]

* "You have a right to straight facts" [we don't tell you what to think, we tell you what to think about]

Do these two seem incompatible to anyone else? "we'll give you the straight dope...but with a positive spin!". How can they possibly claim to be objective when they've just declared that they will selectively bias how they report events?

The most annoying thing to me right now is pop-up ads. We shouldn't have to tolerate that at all. It was bad enough when they started putting channel logos in the corner of the screen. Television is getting close to be unwatchable for me.

20/20: Television is getting close to be unwatchable for me.

Try not watching TV for a week. It's an eye-opener.

A few years ago I was where you are now. I realized that the majority of what I was watching was garbage (and this was after examining the schedule at length for something worth watching), and I was mainly watching for two or three shows, one of which (Stargate SG-1) was rapidly going downhill. The others were either "eh, nothing else on" fodder or "that thing that's on before/after something I actually want to watch." Add in annoying commercials and popup ads, and the signal/pain ratio was getting a little too ugly.

One of the casualties of my roommate's disgusting behavior was cable (he had his computer seized and figured "why should I pay any of the cable/internet bill if I can't use the net," and I wasn't about to pay for his PPV pro wrestling), and broacast reception in the town we were living in was a joke (three channels on a very good day, and two of them were so snowy you could barely see what was going on), so I was pretty much forced to stop watching even the few shows I could be bothered to turn on anymore. It was annoying for a week or so, but after that I didn't miss it at all. I suddenly had all kinds of extra time for entertainment that didn't insult my intelligence (or merely insulted it less than TV in the case of video games) and things like reading.

That was March 2006. Aside from the occasional movie on HBO, documentary on History/Discovery/National Geographic, or Star Trek if I happen to be bored when it comes on I haven't watched TV since. It's amazing what a difference it makes not being glued to the retard box every night.

Great Janitor: I want the right to have less reality tv shows. I want the right to have those who green light movies and tv shows to be people who are connected with common people, not those who live in New York or California. Those two locations may laugh at the sitcom 'Cavemen', but I only know one person in reality who watches that show, and I think he watches it only because everyone else hates it.

Actually, Cavemen was originally set in Atlanta, but was retooled before the pilot. Being born and raised in Atlanta, this gave me extra incentive to watch the show but when I found out shortly before the pilot aired that the show was now taking place in California, I thought to myself "Motherfarker, they've done it again!"

/totally agrees with your sentiment though