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ALMOST Live: Watching the Oscars Tonight — Minus the Commercials

“Synch-ron-ate”:  recording a show, then watching it ” without commercials ” so as to finish at the same time as the live telecast. Want to watch a major event like the Oscars, but hate commercials? You can watch it live, then take breaks or jump to other channels whenever there’s an interruption. Annoying (and fattening, assuming...
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Pet Peeves 2017: Media That Tell You “What You Need to [Read/See/Do] Now!”

“News You’ll Use?” Or, Useless News? Let’s make one thing clear:  unless you’re my doctor calling with test results, there’s NOTHING that “I Need to Know, RIGHT NOW!!”  🙂  Which is why I sure hope the mainstream media cools it when it comes to increasingly ubiquitous ads insistently telling viewers “what they need to [see/do/read]” ....
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Watching the Oscars . . .

. . . But Skipping the Commercials “Synch-ron-ate”:  recording a show, then watching it ” without commercials ” so as to finish at the same time as the live telecast. Want to watch a major event like the Oscars, but hate commercials? You can watch it live, then take breaks or jump to other channels whenever...
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