Digital Switchover Madness?
My local paper has just run an article about "Digital Madness" with the storyline that people are confused about the Digital Swithover. They claim that people are needlessly throwing away analogue TVs that could be converted to digital using a receiver costing as little as £20. The story is accompanied by shots of loads of old TVs at a recycling plant.
It's true, they could be converted, but the paper has it wrong. The truth is that people are dumping their old CRT TVs in order to buy better flatscreen ones. The paper knows this but prefers the more shocking line about wastage and confusion due to the switchover.
