Stop The Price Gouging At Time Warner!
By: Pam On: May/3/06 - 30 Comments
This is meant to be tongue in cheek, but Jeff nails it!
The Time Warner media conglomerate posted a 60% increase in earnings in the first quarter of 2006, recording a $1.43 BILLION profit.
Cable prices are going through the roof and yet Congress does nothing. Women and children are particularly hard hit by soaring newstand prices. Put Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons in front of a Congressional investigation panel with the company’s financial records to explain. He should also be required to reveal the details of his excessive compensation package.
Perhaps Democrats will sponsor a “windfall profits tax” for Time Warner. Republicans may offer rebates to low-income subscribers.
May 3, 2006 - 10:07 PM on May 3rd, 2006
let us all, say stop prison rape:roll:
May 4, 2006 - 07:22 AM on May 4th, 2006
Time-Warner has been decidedly left-leaning in their periodicals and publications for years. They’ve made money advocating Leftism. Now they are joining the ranks of the evil corporations ripping off the proletariat! Lenin is spinning in his display case!
People should dump their cable. Stop watching so much TV. It’s mostly garbage and propaganda anyway; junk food for the mind.
May 4, 2006 - 10:24 AM on May 4th, 2006
“People should dump their cable. Stop watching so much TV. It’s mostly garbage and propaganda anyway; junk food for the mind.”
YES. Ditch your cable, it’s not necessary anymore – especially if you have high speed internet.
PBS has news programs, nature shows, kids stuff…and it’s free!
May 4, 2006 - 10:28 AM on May 4th, 2006
San Fran,
PBS isn’t “free” it’s funded by forcably extracting money from me and other hard-working americans.
I have to have cable, I’m hopelessly addicted to…..
Sopranos
Entourage
Deadwood
Flavor of Love
Best Week Evern
Viva La Bam
FOX NEWS!!!
May 4, 2006 - 10:30 AM on May 4th, 2006
Not to mention NFL…how am I supposed to watch my Steelers go for Super Bowl #6????
May 4, 2006 - 10:37 AM on May 4th, 2006
I am addicted to my cable! I watch that more so than regular programing. I love the history and discovery options available to me.
The problem is that, in my case, Comcast has a monopoly on the market! I have no other clable TV choice and for high speed internet, again, no other choice. The service is awful yet the price keeps going up!
May 4, 2006 - 10:41 AM on May 4th, 2006
Peejz..I’m with you on that one..I HATE monopolies.. and I’ve always had a serious problem with the cable monopoly. Hopefully, the technology will evolve to the point that we will have multiple providers to choose from and be able to order “a la carte” cable.. since, out of the 450 channels I currently get, I only watch about 20
May 4, 2006 - 10:44 AM on May 4th, 2006
4–Flavor of Love? Seriously?
When I lived in St. Paul, Comcast was the only choice. Now that I’m back in Minneapolis, Time Warner is my only choice. TW has the worst customer service, and it’s highly frustrating that they’re our only choice. I had so many problems with them that when I called to cancel, and listed the many reasons why I was cancelling, they offered me full digital cable for one year at 19.99 a month. I accepted, but it’s still annoying.
I’m like Peejz, I’m addicted to cable. I don’t even watch regular programming (other than ER, I’m shamelessly addicted to that). I love Discovery, Discovery Health, National Geographic, History, and TLC.
May 4, 2006 - 10:46 AM on May 4th, 2006
8. yeah, I know.. I get sucked in easily by these damn reality shows…. I’m even on “America’s Next Top Model” now…..yikes.
greatest like from “pumpkin” on Flavor of Love
“I can’t believe they think I’m just here to be on TV, I’ve only been on 4 game shows, family feud and blind date….”
May 4, 2006 - 10:46 AM on May 4th, 2006
Mike Kilo – Ditch your cable and get into Netflix rentals or maybe get into ripping your shows off the internet.
I’m also hopelessly addicted to The Sopranos and Lost, but I rent `em or rip `em. It beats paying the corporate whore cable company, that’s for damn sure.
Most shows you can find online, for free or super cheap.
As for Fox News, you don’t really need to watch it. Besides, if you absolutely MUST get your Fox-Fix, go to the website…it’s just as flashy and has just as many American flags plastered all over it, and it’s free!
And PBS is “free”. The tax on you the individual is probably not even noticeable – I read somewhere that it works out to around $1.12 per year. They get the vast majority of their funding from other sources…
And the quality of PBS programming is unbeatable. The news shows are the best, and consistently rank as fair and balanced in polls and studies.
May 4, 2006 - 10:56 AM on May 4th, 2006
Folks…if you hate the cable company so much, WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO BUY THEIR PRODUCT?
I understand you guys love your shows, but there are cheaper ways to watch them, and in most cases, you can honestly do without. (!)
“I don’t even watch regular programming (other than ER, I’m shamelessly addicted to that). I love Discovery, Discovery Health, National Geographic, History, and TLC.”
Seriously, check out PBS sometime. It’s not what you want right when you want it, but it’s got all those kinds of programs you’d like; nature, history, travel…
I dunno. I’m just saying that I was the most cable addicted person around for my whole life until I moved out here to SF, and discovered that I still watch too much TV, but at least I don’t pay some corporate whore for the privilege.
May 4, 2006 - 11:13 AM on May 4th, 2006
9–I saw something on TV that a month after the show, she “commited” to marrying a woman she had just met a few weeks earlier, saying she had found the love of her life.
May 4, 2006 - 11:17 AM on May 4th, 2006
NO WAY!!! can you find something on line??? That’s funny.
May 4, 2006 - 11:36 AM on May 4th, 2006
Here you go, Mike!
May 4, 2006 - 11:55 AM on May 4th, 2006
can’t…stand…reality…TV shows…
May 4, 2006 - 12:04 PM on May 4th, 2006
13–I hate them with a passion, but I still get sucked in to an episode if I see something funny. Funny as in, someone is making an ass of themself. I just sit there in amazement at how low people can go for a little attention.
I do admit that I get sucked into shows that highlight these shows, like “Top 100 reality show moments,” or something stupid like that.
May 4, 2006 - 12:06 PM on May 4th, 2006
I too love to see the a-holes make absolute nitwits of themselves..it’s like a NASCAR crash..I CAN’T LOOK AWAY!
May 4, 2006 - 12:10 PM on May 4th, 2006
15–Exactly!
My husband leaves the room whenever I have something like that on.
May 4, 2006 - 12:16 PM on May 4th, 2006
13.
Why does that not surprise me, SF?? After all, those people on Jerry Springer and other “low brow” shows are “red state” americans, right?
you are MUCH more sophisticated than we unwashed rubes, right???
May 4, 2006 - 12:18 PM on May 4th, 2006
I am very educated, successful in my career, a multi-lingual musician, etc.. but I do not look down on my fellow americans….that’s part of what seperates you elitist liberals from us conservatives..
I embrace toothless hillbillies…hell, I WAS ONE!!!
May 4, 2006 - 12:38 PM on May 4th, 2006
“I am very educated, successful in my career, a multi-lingual musician, etc.. but I do not look down on my fellow americans:.that’s part of what seperates you elitist liberals from us conservatives…”
Whoa, dude! Slow your roll! I’m not knocking you or anyone who DOES like Reality TV, all I said was that I, personally, can’t stand it.
“you are MUCH more sophisticated than we unwashed rubes, right???”
Ha! I seriously doubt it. My most sophisticated moment in recent memory was NOT falling asleep while at the SF Ballet performance of “Sylvia” yesterday…..ZZZZzzzzzz
(SF Lib, born and raised in Ohio and Michigan, is not sophisticated by any measure of the word)
May 4, 2006 - 12:40 PM on May 4th, 2006
Slow your roll?
What a great saying! I think I’ll have to use that.
May 4, 2006 - 12:50 PM on May 4th, 2006
all right..sorry about that.. I have a tendency to go a little over the top (in case you haven’t noticed)
slow your roll
I dig that too…gonna steal that one, SFL.
May 4, 2006 - 12:52 PM on May 4th, 2006
By the way, 81 degrees under beautiful sunshine here in Philadelphia today…what the hell am I doing inside here, waxing on about Pumpkin????
yikes.
May 4, 2006 - 01:38 PM on May 4th, 2006
Outside of Jerry Springer and Wheel of Fortune, there’s not too much on TV worth watching anyway, is there?
Seriously, try Satellite. DirectTV or Dish Network.
Favorite channels:
History Channel
Encore Westerns
Military Channel
TV Land
Biography
A&E
Discovery
Hallmark (around Christmas)
May 4, 2006 - 01:48 PM on May 4th, 2006
Let’s just say that we have VERY Different tastes, Robert…haha
The only western I like is Deadwood..which also happens to be hands down, the best show on TV.
May 4, 2006 - 07:33 PM on May 4th, 2006
“Deadwood” the real America, who can say more? the only other show i love is Star Gate SG-1 AND THE HISTORY Or the Hitler ch.:razz:
May 4, 2006 - 08:09 PM on May 4th, 2006
Yeah, my biggest beef with the “History International” channel is that it spends too much time on Hitler and WWII. It got to the point where every time my wife and I would sit down to watch TV, we’d start scrolling through the program guide and say “Wonder what Hitler’s up to these days?” as the History channels came up.
Of course with Hitlary’s chance at the Presidency coming up, maybe it’s a timely subject after all…
May 4, 2006 - 08:18 PM on May 4th, 2006
Robert some of the best History shows are on between 11-2 midday!
May 5, 2006 - 02:22 AM on May 5th, 2006
I’ll check it out. We have Dish Network with the DVR (difital video recorder box, like TIVO) so we can record stuff.
I don’t know if I should mention it, but I was on a History Channel show. It was shot in July 2003 and aired summer 2004. No, it wasn’t about Hitler!