>Actually, the distribution model was very efficient - it delivered everywhere, didn't it? But it went down the drain to the happy grounds where media go when their business model starts to rely on advertising. That seems to be the kiss of death for any medium. They may thrive for a while, but will eventually and inevitably screw up their audience and stop selling content. Their content will become the icing between the ads.
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One of the problems is the complete lack of moral standards, of honesty. Like, just one example of ads that appear on the Internet, even on some otherwise reputable Web pages: "Congratulations, you are the 999,999 visitor" (A LIE). And it continues: "You won!" (another LIE - it just takes me to a lottery Web site).
I mean, can't some authority impose at least a minimum of truthfulness in public advertising?
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
