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Can’t give it away
In the past three days I’ve had two sales calls from my local Internet Service Provider offering me Cable TV. Both times I have declined, and asked them, quite pointedly not to ask me the question again. Which my last remaining reader might think odd, because in their desperation to increase their CableTV subscriptions the Cable company were offering quite a financially attractive package. No contract. Ten bucks a month off my Internet and phone bill. Pretty please with sugar on it. Pur-lease buy.
On the second call, when asked why I didn’t want to effectively be paid to have the service, I opined that CableTV was “Crap that you couldn’t pay me to watch.”
I don’t need Cable TV anyway, because all the news I need is out there on the jolly old Interweb, and I’m quite capable of reading and listening for myself without having overpaid people telling me how to think and feel about a given situation. The Weather news I get direct from Service Canada. The Financial news direct from the markets themselves. There are some other excellent reasons for not bothering with Cable TV like;
- I don’t watch sports
- I don’t watch Fox, CNN, or MSNBC
- I don’t watch anything on our TV until at least 7:30PM, and then I only have a series or a movie on as background while I read a book
- Most of Cable TV is dire and chock full of adverts for stuff I’ll never want or need
- The ‘News’ is all third hand Op-eds and therefore useless
Seriously, if I want the financial news there are far better real time sources online to base my decisions upon. If I want real news there are far better sources than Cable. Honestly. It all depends what I’m looking for. As for analysis, don’t make me laugh. These services are little better than paid mouthpieces for the guy with the deepest wallet or the most useful idiots.
So it doesn’t matter how much they discount the price, I will not be taking a Cable TV subscription. Because it’s so bad and obviously slanted now that the service providers can’t even give it away. Well, at least not to an old cynic like me.
Source: https://billsticker.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/cant-give-it-away/
