
On Mount Qassioun in Damascus, February 28, 2025 (Hassan Bilal/ Anatolia)
It is difficult to monitor and watch a drama series on one of the “free” Arab satellite channels, not to mention watching it with a good or enjoyment, without a boycott. Electronic bureaucracy always needs review and maintenance, and this leads us again to pay “time/age”, in exchange for obtaining popular entertainment that is to watch series and Ramadan works, this without noticing the amount of media compulsion to watch them, as if they were messages from a higher moral side, which we need to monitor our human performance.
And advertisements of the nature of television, provided that they are used smartly, a dictatorship of a market controlled by viewers ’times and tastes, as it is sufficient for the political and ideological propaganda series in the same series, until the viewer turns into a swamp of slogans that do not allow any thought or individual contemplative swimming in it, but rather part of a total of defect, forbidden, halal, and custom, to embody the customers with the same images Responsible, confirmed by the programs of recommending stars and television work makers, on their various aspirations, so the entertainment turns into membership in fake clubs, without assessing content or performance, and this is part of the price paid for viewing.
As for the most important part of this time, it is spending time/age, which is the most expensive person possesses, pending the end of the ads to follow a series, there will be no minutes, or a few viewers until you intersect your viewing these compulsory/extremely extortional advertisements Not only a “vile” excuse to follow the advertisements, which are not satisfied with displaying commercials, but also extending to other series and programs, but also for the same station, to the extent that it displays clips from these series in a clear dispersal of the viewer’s effort, in allocating time to watch a TV work in advance that a few commercial ads will boycott it, but what is happening now and on most Arab satellite channels is not a passing boycott It is a successive display of advertisements intersecting by scenes from a series or a TV program full of her sponsors and financiers.
It is never possible to likely like this from the offers, so if the stations consider themselves the owner of the money that is spent on works and broadcasting, so that she is entitled to control the time of viewers, by forcing them to loyalty to them, through the continuous and drowned outstanding broadcasting, which turns them into a tribe that erases their individual differentiation, this can be considered a crime, if the scrutiny of the laws, because what happens is similar to the contracts Legal and can be reversed, as the public interest requires not to kill citizens by draining their ages pending the continued broadcast of “entertainment” works, for the human being is the possibility, and artwork is an attempt to improve and develop this possibility, and this will not take place by confiscating his times in exchange for intermittent pleasure that does not fatten or sing from hunger, not to mention if the supply is valid for contemporary human consumption or not.
As for the month of Ramadan, many times are available to the fasting people, according to the custom in our Arab countries, and he asked for the time of time waiting for breakfast available, but it is not an invitation to waste it on the pretext of serving the interest of the public, so the time and repetition is not an interest for anyone including the advertisers, because the prolongation and repetition make the viewers without the follow -up, and they may replace it with detention and lack of attention, even if the advertiser is dependent on the impact For his ads.
Whoever believes that he watches series and Ramadan programs is free of charge, because he pays for a way that is not a way to restore it if the commodity is not valid.
This type of forced viewing is similar to who buys fish in the sea, to look like a licking or like a brought. In a return to unwritten social contracts, every social behavior is a contract, whatever its simplicity, so no television station has the right to discuss and sell advertisements in exchange for plotting from a series that we have no ability to give its scattered elements.
No one thinks that he is watching a series for free, but rather the matter is driven more precious than the price of platforms that promise to delete commercials, because most series are also ideological and social ads, customers must listen to no matter how repeated, so that the viewer becomes deleted will and choice, a future recreation that can be replaced with a flood of recreational products in the world.