Those sneaky, sneaky television networks

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According to the Associated Press, network television is all about commercials. And also, if you can imagine, networks have made ads harder to avoid, and have been inserting them into their featured programming for quite some time now. And finally, it turns out that grass is, prepare yourselves, green. Now that we’ve mastered the obvious, how else does this story enlighten us? By revealing that commercial breaks, for all intents and purposes, are to be treated as featured programming from here on out.

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