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Long Term Effects of Gizmodo CES Prank
theodp noted that someone from Gizmodo brought a TV-B-Gone to CES and used it to turn off a wall of monitors during demos. Funny yes, it earned him a ban for life and may have repercussions to other bloggers struggling to be treated as equals with traditional journalists in the future. But also this might lead to a future with encryption on remotes.
If you had left this at your first paragraph it might have been a good post.
Too bad you, like most 20-30 year olds in the entitled generation (just guessing from your attitude) had to take it too far.
What about lack of TV makes someone ignorant? I am far MORE informed since I canceled my satellite. I waist far less of my life watching ads and more keeping up on what is going on in the world. If more people did that instead of watching TV perhaps you would be less aware of current media hype and more aware of the truth. Using your flawed logic I could make the assumption that you ARE ignorant simply because you can't see the difference, and thus waist your time watching American Idol and/or Fox News, or can't figure out how to use netflix to get a show you can watch on YOUR schedule and saving 15 minutes per episode.
Let me make this simple for you: Movies > TV due to no commercials and no need to justify another season. Also you can usually fast forward through all the ads at the beginning. Books > Movies as they stir creative portions of the brain and never have ads to begin with. TV and movies are a way to shut your brain OFF, not use it. Another reason you make it obvious you are young, only the most recent generation thinks ads are not annoying and simply a fact of life. Do you realize how much YOU pay on products in order for them to spend your money and inundate you with the ads? Yes, it is your money being used to force you to watch the ads. Nothing is free kid.
As for parenting, socializing your children so they understand some times they don't get what they want is a VERY important thing. As someone interviewing/managing these people coming out of college I can tell you the attitude only hurts you in trying to get a grown up job.