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July 9, 2012
More Sports Glummery
Noticing New York
As discussed in my previous Sports Glummery article there are those who dream of inaugurating a moderated form of fandom whereby individuals of conscience can with proper restraint avoid complicity with the dastardly deeds done in the pursuit of profit by the highly commercialized sports industry. Others, like myself, would prefer to keep life simple: We would shun the industry to effect a clear-cut divorce and separation. Whatever one may wish for, escaping complicity may not be so easy.
It turns out, according to recent analysis that even those of us who never watch professional sports can blame the franchises running that industry for significantly driving up the cost of our cable television bills: 90 percent of Americans pay for cable, satellite or fiber optic television, and according to the Wall Street Journal in 2010, about 40 percent of consumers' basic cable bills probably went towards sports programming.
Posted by eric at July 9, 2012 12:22 PM