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Originally Posted by Speck's Dad /forum/post/18696620
You're equating an SNL skit to something said by an official FIOS representative? So SNL really wanted me to believe that Peyton Manning invented the three-can beer hat?
Let me make up some statistics to illustrate my point. Do a simple survey (e.g. Jaywalking) of a bunch of random voters off the street. You will find (of those who have an opinion):
greater than 50% believe that Sarah Palin said "I can see Russia from my house"
less than 1% believe that Peyton Manning invented the three-can beer hat
So the "big lie" or "smear" worked quite well.
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Originally Posted by URFloorMatt /forum/post/18697028
PG apparently doesn't understand what the purpose of satire is or how it works. I don't believe Verizon is in the satire business, though their customer service operations often feel like a big joke.
To try to remove my (perhaps ill-advised) political statements from this thread, here are similar non-political statements about HDTV:
because of clever advertising together with mis-information by CSRs, greater than 90% of cable and/or FiOS subscribers believe that you must rent a box from the company before you can receive any HD, even local HD channels
because of clever advertising together with mis-information by CSRs, greater than 90% of cable and/or FiOS subscribers believe that you must subscribe to an expensive digital programming tier before you can receive any HD, even local HD channels
We can quibble about the percentages above, which I pulled out of somewhere, but the general idea holds. Cable/FiOS has told a "big lie" about what services are available and at what cost. That big lie is believed by many more people than understand the actual truth. Because (at least where I live), you can get local HDTV from either Comcast or Verizon without renting a box and without paying for an expensive package.