Not having access to CBS is like not being able to buy Cheerios. Both have been in my life for as long I remember, and the television station, unlike the cereal, was for a long time one of only three options. How many years have I spent watching its programs? Not the ones the Herald listed in its July 20 article – NCIS, Big Brother, Elementary, Love Island – but 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, and, yes, football. The blackout seems antithetical to America – land of plenty, and free choice – yet it’s caused by the most American of things: a dispute over money.
