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I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

— Dick Wolf

TV is what sells your product.

— Sheryl Swoopes

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

— Les Brown

You basically do have a TV show when you're making stuff online. You have an audience that you make stuff for regularly.

— Anthony Padilla

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

— Bob Ross

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

— Jack Gould

The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.

— Jonathan Klein

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

— Dan Harmon

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

— Megyn Kelly

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

— John Hawkes