Where to Recycle Your Old Television

TV Recycling Responsibilities... TV Networks Aborted Duties

I believe the Commercial TV Networks have responsiblities and a large duty to The Public in this Rush to a Digital Television spectrum, well beyond their limited present roles. I believe a unique position is held by the hundreds of local affiliates, as

`representatives' of an important industry's national role locally.

As such, I believe they should, as a final part of their prior and long-standing critical position and important local communtiy role be required to become LOCAL RECEIVERS OF ALL OLD UNWANTED TELEVISIONS STILL HELD BY ALL VIEWERS IN ALL COUNTYS AND STATES in the US, and to do so as a thanks to viewers in these communities for their prior, continuous and future support of these entities in communities all across country...

I wish to raise a once clear issue of concern, wrongly allowed to be ingored in TV's unique role & that shouldn't have been.

The profiteering TV Networks are now on the verge of enjoying what will be endless profits FOREVER, finally ENABLED to ignore their founding tenets and pursue profits BEFORE a once important

`public duty' role is complete; to fulfill what was the original

FCC mandate at the dawn of Radio as an Industry... #1, to inform, then #2, educate and LASTLY, to #3, to entertain "The Public, over the Public Airwaves..."

The insulting requirement of "Public Use of Funds" ($40 credit

coupons for a 5 or $10 piece of equipment)to enable (ALLOW?)

air-based tv signals to become `privatized' & used' exclusively

by corporate TV `commercial' broadcast networks is just 1 more sad angle for `the public' to endure, for the privilege of

staying "informed" through what marginally qualifies as `news'!

Their `self-education' duties clearly woefully failed all

recognized standards, the subordinate roles of elected/appointed

representatives should be scrutinized but won't be by a corrupt media, almost inherent, virtually corrupt mob, unwilling and

incapable of honestly or substantively investigating or punish-

ing an entire subculture of those in co-optive assistance to Media's Non-Public Interest- of the most profit via the least effort, not even considering a long-lost "Duty to the Public Interest" Mandate...

As a Craigslist follower in a self-interest based in goodwill,

i'e'; that honesty-based recycling does do a lot of good, getting items that work from 1 person to others, this TV signal change has raised the darker shadows of some souls to falsely claim to have been knowingly offering broken & dead TVs to others.

As as consequence, I am currently in possession of 6 or 7 TVs I'd like to recycle without an additional cost to myself, minus gas I use dropping them off...

Do you think Commercial TV Networks Affiliates should be made to accept old TVs, as a simple way to recycle TVs for their own viewers? This last year has shown repeatedly how well the CONNECTED, SMART, RICH & SOULLESS evade responsibility.

This is a reasonable hands-on way to help those in need...

Jon Munro of MA @ Apr 22, 2009 15:28:13 PM