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I'm Really Fed Up With TV Media

landtuna said:
We'd all be better off if political advertising were totally prohibited. These ads do absolutely nothing to bring any sort of useful information to the voting public but they encourage the political parties to beg/borrow/steal vast amounts of monies to spend on misleading commercials.
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You have a point. It's all paid lying, exaggerations and hyperbole. On the internet, the only political 'ads' I've seen were politicians begging for money. Probably so they can spend it on other ads.

Can't fault radio for taking the political ad money, though. They've got to eat, too. They've got to pay the bills somehow.
 
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TheBigA said:
Except they don't. People are addicted to TV. They have to watch. What they want is for TV to change. But that won't happen.
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If they're addicted to TV, though, the number of TV addicts has been dropping over the past few years, as they migrate to streaming platforms.. Not just overall numbers, but time spent watching TV has apparently dropped, too, by roughly half an hour, where streaming time spent watching increased by an hour over the same six year period.

Not sure how much the political ads factor in. I personally don't get any political ads, except on YouTube, where politicians of both stripes are begging for money to run ads elsewhere. Aside from that, being that I don't watch TV, and live in one of the bluest counties in the country, I don't get much exposure to political advertising aside from the rare sign in someone's yard.
 
What gets me is how I will get political ads on YouTube from areas where I don't live like neighboring states or sometimes even others that I'm nowhere near. I wish there was a way to cut that type of stuff off.
 
anotherguyTN said:
What gets me is how I will get political ads on YouTube from areas where I don't live like neighboring states or sometimes even others that I'm nowhere near. I wish there was a way to cut that type of stuff off.
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If you have your browser set up correctly you should not be seeing any political ads. You will see political podcasts (programs) but not commercials.
 
anotherguyTN said:
What gets me is how I will get political ads on YouTube from areas where I don't live like neighboring states or sometimes even others that I'm nowhere near. I wish there was a way to cut that type of stuff off.
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True probably the group posting the ads wanted national attention so they can go on cable talk shows for that. I seen some of congressional ads and in some cases state legislature races from out of state. All of the out of the state ads I seen so far are for Trump allies and meant to lure Fox News viewers on Youtube. However when I see political ads and segments in my area of California they are more pro-Harris for obvious reasons like her allies here wanting to protect the home state advantage in both donors and votes.
 
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