What Is This World Coming To?

By Frank Spaniak

With just over a month before the nations televisions are scheduled to convert to digital transmission,  the incoming Obama administration is asking congress to consider a delay the switchover here.

In the most significant sign to date of concern about the impending digital TV transition, the Obama transition team co-chairman John Podesta said the government funds to support the change are “woefully inadequate” and said that the digital switch date, Feb. 17, should be “reconsidered and extended.”

Is it that Mr Obama doesn’t want you to miss American Idol or what the media thinks is Americas idol?  There are millions of low-income homes that will not be able to watch it and there could very well be rioting in the streets because of it.

This reminds me of the long lost TV show “Max Headroom” where TV was king.  They were once talking about doing the Christmas show to get sympathy from the masses by showing the family sitting around a non functional TV and how hard times really were.  Fantasy at the time, showing that with out it we are lost, and proof that without a TV it would truly be hard times.

Is it more primal than that?  Without a lot of the people that voted for change that now can’t afford the converter boxes not able to see the next President on TV making change for them.  Without it the only change that they will see is that Obama took away their TV?   Not quite the change I’m sure he was hoping to deliver.  We’d better get used to it.

Maybe it’s a great opportunity to sit down with a good book like The Bible.