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Conservatives Call for Cord Cutting to Starve “Left Wing” Networks Out of Business

Phillip Dampier August 12, 2015 Competition, Consumer News, Online Video 4 Comments
Time to cut the cord and starve left-wing media.

Nolte: Time to cut the cord and starve left-wing media.

The only solution to stop the “largest swindle big business ever played on the American people” is to cut cable television’s cord and stop paying for channels you do not want or need.

That advice comes from the conservative Breitbart News Service, among the first to make cable television bundling a political issue:

Meanwhile, for around $100 a month pay TV is not only pummeling you with about 20 minutes of ads an hour, but forcing you to pay for a ton of networks you hate. Moreover, many of these networks get a chunk of your cable bill. Even if you don’t watch left-wing CNN and MSNBC, if they are on your package, chances are a part of your bill is going directly to both.

If you want to put CNN, MSNBC, MTV, and all these other low-rated, left-wing networks out of business, not watching them makes absolutely no difference.

You have to cut the cord.

Nearly half of CNN’s revenue comes from this immoral revenue stream. CNN is taking your money to attack you all day every day.

And that is the great con the gigantic left-wing multinationals have pulled off for decades. Something like 100 million homes keep hundreds of networks profitable by forcing those customers into overpriced cable packages. Maybe 15 cable networks could survive solely on ad revenue generated by actual eyeballs. The rest would go poof, and good riddance.

scissorsAuthor John Nolte, editor-at-large for the news service, blames big cable bills on the “Hollywood rich” who he writes just keep getting richer. He thinks a better solution is to sign up with Netflix or Amazon and say goodbye to cable television.

Breitbart News, Nolte writes, “has been way ahead of the curve” predicting the demise of the one-size-fits-all cable television bundle that customers can hardly afford “while Obama’s economy falters and an influx of illegal aliens keep wages depressed.” Nothing stops the rate increases until consumers cancel the service, Nolte believes.

Reader reaction to the piece quickly identifies one shortcoming for conservatives: the loss of Fox News Channel. But many comments expressed the view Fox News has gone “Republican In Name Only” and isn’t worth paying for either. Many conservatives taking anti-corporate political views prefer alternative media like Breitbart News Service and Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, which ironically has tried to land cable carriage agreements for years with only limited success.

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me
me
8 years ago

I cut the cord in 2009. It was 3 things that pushed me over. 1) The incessant commercials (and my small dips back in here and there has proven to me it is much worse now). 2) The cost was only going up and never down sometimes 50-100 a year. 3) The incessant non stop political whining on both sides. There was not 1 show I could watch which did not have some small portion of political drivel in it. I got tired of paying for people to pitch things at me. Always with ‘the agenda’ or ‘the spin’ or… Read more »

Joe V
Joe V
8 years ago

Phil, now is the time to cut the cord. I did in March of this year. I have Amazon Prime, Netflix and Apple TV. There is so much you can get using streaming services bud. I can give you more information if you want.

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Trump 2016
8 years ago

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