Viewers, not governments, should choose what we watch

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Viewers, not governments, should choose what we watch Jeff Hurvitz September 23, 2025 September 22, 2025

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There was an ad years ago for the now antiquated telephone directories. Its slogan was “let your fingers do the walking in the Yellow Pages.” It invited people to make choices as to what businesses they would patronize. These days, the remote-control device for our TV gives us many choices for our viewing. We have a plethora of channels in order to locate our favored programs.

As Jimmy Kimmel has gotten increasingly political over the years, my fingers walked away from the close of our local ABC news presentation onto another choice — often Jimmy Fallon’s