Why were my posts about your press release which referred to the above deleted. I'm new to "forums" but thought this was an ideal way to express my frustration and get a response. I did not swear, was not abusive, but did highlight an embarrassing, if obscure, press release of yours. Surely you can't be censoring what you have helpfully had in the public domain, accessible via a few google clicks. At least someone is reading and taking notice...
Because Channel 4 (like the BBC, like most elitist aristocratic institutions) does not like the truth so it alters it.
These marketing types love to pretend how in touch they are. They love to interject their "suggestions", opinions, and propositions in to our lives at their behest and timing.
These marketing types however can't cope when the public answers back or deviates from their party line.
Like the Labour Party conference the other week, anyone who dares challenge the management is likely to be ejected outside.
They give us Red Buttons to press with pre-set options, but they can't give us a way to answer "out of the box".
They talk "public service", but in reality, those who get air time are usually from a narrow filtered list of contributors, and the usual suspects at that.
TV is just such an illusion.
The fact is C4 mislead the public.
They said More4 would be Free-To-Air. It's in most interviews with Peter Dale, on C4's Ad Sales Website, and in the filed Statement of Programme Policy for 2005/6.
Since anyone can operate a Free-To-Air channel, and almost anyone does now days, one can conclude that the only reason why More4 is a subscription channel, is because C4 wanted it this way.
