I WILL NOT WATCH " INSIDE EDITION" ANYMORE

THE KUHNS REPORT

Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

It's bad enough when there is too may commercials during television programs but when the network and/or television show begins to run commercials under the guise of a news segment, that takes the cake. Personally, I will not watch television show INSIDE EDITION, again. Let me explain.

A couple months ago  while watching the show the host went into a segment praising a skin serum that was said to be a breakthrough. It was called  Boots N o 7 Intense Serum.It was not presented during a commercial break. The host presented a TV clip as an interview with a spokesperson telling ladies not to use their own home remedies to enhance their skin but instead use the Boots No 7, Intense skin serum. I, probably like millions of other viewers though the interview segment was part of the reporting news program. A month or two late, on the same television show, Inside Edition, I saw the exact same  TV segment and again, it was not during a commercial break. The host went right into the segment as if she were actually reporting an event like the  rest of her show. Then, two days ago while watching INSIDE EDITION, -- Guess What? Same TV clip, word for word, and the same spokesperson promoting this skin serum, saying it's available at Target stores. At the end of the show I  briefly caught mention at the bottom of the screen that so and so was the spokesperson for Boots, No 7 serum.

People, the networks and TV shows are already speeding up many shows so they make extra time for additional commercials, raking in millions of extra dollars in revenue. The shows are sped up by seconds and minutes. If one looks closely at many of the TV shows, sitcoms, etc.,  they will see how fast people move. They may hear garbled speech or erratic jumps and pauses in the film. Just speeding up a 30 minute sitcom by seconds those networks can  realize additional commercial revenue but they fail to alert or tell  the consumer what they are doing. Their thinking is the viewer will never notice the difference between an original show and one that  has been sped up or cut.

My point,- with all the manipulation of  the television programs already being done by the networks and shortchanging us viewers for the sake of  revenue and additional commercial time we clearly don't need television networks using hidden, covert and/or embedded commercials in a show when they already have commercials every ten minutes or so during their half hour program.

Folks, if I want FAKE NEWS or INFORMATION I will watch the Jon Stewart show. He has never claimed his show was the real news . His show is very entertaining and a good play on the actual news occurring around the world and he does a bang up job in his presentations - -excellent, excellent show and we know what we are getting up front. But when a  news/information show runs a  so-called commercial that is  disguised to look like a regular extension of a story -- WOW! That's unwarranted.

There was a time when you could watch television with NO commercials. How? Back in the early 1960's cable came into being. We consumes were told that  the reason people were being charged for the cable service was because  there were no commercials being played on cable. Even then people would pay for cable just to avoid the commercials. During that time a television commercial was run every 15 minutes and the commercial was only THREE minutes long. In an hour show the viewer saw only FOUR commercials. That was only TWELVE minutes of commercial time. Fast forward, present day - - now, there is no such thing as commercial free cable. So, we're still paying for cable but we have to endure commercials running at least FIVE minutes, sometimes, more after only TEN MINUTES of the television show. Folks,  you get ten minutes of seeing the show and then are bombarded with five solid  minutes of commercials, then ten minutes more of the show and another five solid minutes of commercials and this goes on throughout the half hour or hour show. I submit that if you count the commercials in that long, long five minutes you can count at least TEN commercials. And that's happening every ten minutes of viewing time. Now, the networks and television shows are squeezing out even more commercial time, ripping us consumers. If that's not enough we are seeing covert and hidden commercials between the actual commercials and I would suspect that the networks are being paid for these hidden segments. I say, when is enough, enough? - And,  that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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