by Jason Sorrell

Created on: January 27, 2009

On February 17th, 2009, it is planned that all full-powered television networks will stop broadcasting in analog and begin broadcasting in digital. That's a little less than a month away, folks, and the government is starting to sweat a little. You see, television is the leading media source for the citizens of the United States, and most of the networks lean one way or another in regards to politicsthe days of unbiased journalism died in Viet Nam. The political parties need you to have television so they can keep you convinced of their point of view by providing you the information that they want you to see and hear. They certainly don't want you to go looking for any information on your own. Also, it is beneficial for the powers-that-be that its workforce is kept docile and complacent when not at work. Television "programming" has proven to be the best method to keep a workforce and a society in check. You can't be thinking about what might really be going on in Iraq when your busy being concerned about what character is having sex with another character on "Gossip Girl" or if Britney will ever get her career back on track. Keeping the people focused on what is not important lets the powers-that-be do what they want while we are not looking. So, they need you to tune in.

They had hoped, however, that you would run out and buy a nice, big, digital television to do it.

Their website; www.dtv.gov, says on its FAQs page that the reason for the switch is to create more bandwidth for emergency services. It goes on to say that consumers will get more options and better quality images with the switch, which aren't reasons at all and are only really the case if you buy a HD television. Regular televisions with the converter box will have the same quality of image as they had beforethat is all they are capable of. As to emergency services having more bandwidth to play with, I thought emergency services had all but completely switched to digital themselves years ago, because of improved security. Analog has no effect on them. This means that switching to digital would actually reduce the amount of bandwidth for emergency services because of digital programming using the same transmission process. Switching to analog will not improve emergency services who are already using digitalit's a scam.

The real reason for the forced switch is moneybut you knew that. There is, according to some measurements, an average of 3 televisions per household in the US. The reason for

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