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What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell (www.techdirt.com)
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What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell::We just got done noting how 2023 was finally the year that streaming fully surpassed traditional TV in terms of overall paying subscribers. A very obvious "cord cutting" trend that executives spent years claiming was fake or a fad is now the majority norm. But what's left of traditional cable TV isn't doing so well.  Broadcast…

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is literally the description of capitalism. To think that it is isolated to the cable market is a display of the myopia that the author of this article describes themselves. 

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(Sarcasm warning)
It's almost as if capitalism gives us the least of everything at the greatest cost, rather than the opposite!

Nawh, people keep saying it's the best system so it must be.