Force-fed commercials

Broadcasting & Cable reports that Sanford Bernstein & Co. media analyst Tom Wolzien has a plan: "Regulate the DVR [digital video recorder] so consumers have to watch the commercials. It's the only way to prevent the technology from destroying a $60 billion business."

What utter, preposterous gall. Sorry, Tom, but the days of big media controlling our lives are numbered. We're not returning to the plantation.

How sad to see the brilliant new DVR technologies reduced to the headline, "TiVo's Got a Gun."