WSVN, DirecTV reach deal

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/26/2610419/wsvn-directv-reach-deal.html

Posted on Thursday, 01.26.12

(read it at the link above)

* See also … http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/tv/2012/01/wsvn-directv-talking-for-first-time-since-blackout.html

Anyway the dispute was resolved just today. You can read the details at the miamiherald.com link above. The sunsentinel.com article is also interesting about this. So I will not be asking for any more signatures on my petition. Let’s call it a win with only 35 signatures. And apparently other pressure on them got the negotiations back moving along and must have gotten a more reasonable price from Sunbeam. It’s actually probably good that Sunbeam did this … it brought it to light that this kind of thing gets done, where we might never hear about it. It also shows the power of the people that the Internet and other social media (cell phones, Facebook, Twitter) with instant communications - we can actually make a difference. This one was only about television … but I urge everyone to get more involved in things that are important to you, things that are important to your family, things that are important to your community (city, county, state), and things that are import regarding the country as a whole. If we see something rediculous we CAN and we SHOULD talk about it, with our friends, and others in the connected online world. We should probably be saying more often these days that WE’RE MAD AS HELL AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.

“I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do …” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes (Movie Quote: Network (1976)).




We’ll I’m not going to leave you alone …




* And this one has been described as …

5 minutes and one of the most true, impressive and powerful scenes of the 1976 masterpiece “Network” by director Sidney Lumet.
Arthur Jensen explains to Howard Beale how economy and business work and how this determines our everybody’s life.
Although this movie is quite old, these laws and explanations apply and are even more true today than 33 years ago when the movie was shown for the first time.
Listen carefully.




It’s a big club and your are not in it … You and I are not in the big club — George Carlin (Classic!)

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Alan Spicer

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