John McCain once said the worst part of being in a POW camp was being forced to listen to propaganda, which is just a fancy word for a mandatory sales pitch.

At home, you can turn off your television, change channels, or mute the sound, but not aboard an airplane.  For years, advertisers have been seeing all those eyes and ears just sitting on a plane and are willing to pay money to the airlines to put advertisements in front of those passengers.  Unfortunately, airline greed has now permitted the process to begin.  The passengers have been sold-out.  No more reading a good book or catching a few winks.

Today, American Airlines spends five –count’em, five – minutes regaling their passengers with the joy of some credit card.  Tomorrow, it will be soap powder.  Advertisers will pay princely to strut their commercials in front of all those innocent passengers.  And, the passengers cannot turn them off, change channels, or mute the sound.

Certainly, I would rather be a hostage on an airplane than a POW camp.  In both, you are no longer a human being.  You are merely a consumer of propaganda/mandatory sales pitches!