Comments on: Media Watch, only you can’t, you know, watch it http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/06/12/media_watch_only_you_cant_you_know_watch_it/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:55:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tgirsch http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/06/12/media_watch_only_you_cant_you_know_watch_it/comment-page-1/#comment-90504 tgirsch Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:51:31 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/06/12/media_watch_only_you_cant_you_know_watch_it/#comment-90504 Well, several key differences here. First, the local affiliate has more control over what ads they run than what network shows they run. Second, and more importantly, a TV show is fiction on its face, whereas a political ad is not. Third, the viewing audience can easily find out the subject matter of the shows being broadcast, whereas they have no way of knowing what ads are going to be broadcast, thus making the former a much more legitimate "viewer choice" than the latter. And finally, a nit. Anyone who thinks that <i>The Book of Daniel</i> portrayed Christianity in "a negative light" obviously never watched the show, which was overwhelmingly <i>pro-</i>Christian (if not puritanical). Well, several key differences here. First, the local affiliate has more control over what ads they run than what network shows they run. Second, and more importantly, a TV show is fiction on its face, whereas a political ad is not. Third, the viewing audience can easily find out the subject matter of the shows being broadcast, whereas they have no way of knowing what ads are going to be broadcast, thus making the former a much more legitimate “viewer choice” than the latter.

And finally, a nit. Anyone who thinks that The Book of Daniel portrayed Christianity in “a negative light” obviously never watched the show, which was overwhelmingly pro-Christian (if not puritanical).

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