In article
,
Ian

wrote:
Advertising is a cancer. Once it gets established it takes over and
eventually destroys the host. Television used to be to "Entertain,
Inform and Educate", now it's just an advertising platform with the
programmes as a necessary but irritating cost.

Perhaps you don't know history, but ITV started in the mid 1950s. Called
by one of its owners, 'A licence to print money' And the competition also
kicked the BBC into making better programmes.

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*I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize *

Dave Plowman London SW
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