Don’t touch that dialYou have a moral obligation to watch TV commercials, argues Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of AOL/Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting division. “Your contract with the network when you get the show is you’re going to watch the spots,” he says. “Otherwise you couldn’t get the show on an ad-supported basis.” He says that people who use VCRs or personal video recorders to record shows and then skip through the commercials during playback are particularly irresponsible. By not watching the commercials “you’re actually stealing the programming,” he says. But what about going to the bathroom during commercials? Is that allowed in the “contract”? Only if you really have to go, he answers: there’s only “a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom.” (San Jose Mercury News) …Good, because so much of their programming makes us want to throw up.Source: http://thisistrue.com
