Promoting quiet recreation in Wisconsin.
Opposing the coming attempts to sell off Wisconsin's natural heritage.
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Sunday, March 05, 2006

The outdoor life network has...Arena football...

What could be more absurd than the Outdoor Life Network showing hockey? How about....the Outdoor Life Network showing arena football?

Are television and silent sports incompatible? OLN seems to cover hunting, All Terrain vehicles, and survivor reruns. To their credit, they covered the Tour de France. But why isn't there a show on bicycling in general? or cross country skiing? or kayaking?

Probably, the answer can be found in this Frontline episode called The Merchants of Cool: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

According to this video, the few corporations that own cable channels are loaded down with debt, and anxious to capture channel surfers. That is why there is a premium on programs with "pop", gators and sharks eating things, bad weather, murders, mostly nude people, crashes, and sports that involve people slamming into each other. Those are the visuals that channel surfers stop for.

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