[Skybird]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Try Freedom to play what they want to play.

Now since the 4 companies are still in control, I wonder if they will force bad music down our throats? THen again, if they want to maintain listeners, they will need to play something decent still!

-S

TV quality in German TV is constantly detoriating. Obviously there are many viewers who do not care or maybe even like to watch all the crap. Taste of audience is not autark, but is influenced by the input available to them over the years: taste adopts. Don't be surprised that even after all these years TV companies still get away with broadcasting proletarian crap-TV like "Big Brother". And the audience of classicalk CDs has immenely grown, if judging by CD sales numbers. But the general quality of recordings and orchestral interpretations has gone down. Maybe because their are so many incompetent consumers now?

Freedom, and freedom to choose, is no right, and no natural characteristic or god-given gift, but an ability that needs to be learned and constantly trained. Opposing argument is often from the masters of advertising - who try to take the freedom of competent choosing away from you by deceiving you and outthink your reason. Amongst all psychological branches, advertisment psychologists are the ones I find most disgusting. because they try to use tricks to manipulate your intellect, and switch it off.