[namuol]

I implore you to spend an hour consuming public media and then another hour consuming "regular" commercial broadcasting.

There's an unmistakable difference between the commercials employed in commercial broadcasts vs public broadcasts.

I'm sure you can find some reduction of the concept of "commercial" that fits both commercial broadcast advertisements and underwriting posts in public broadcasts, but you'd be missing the point.

Furthermore, the discussion here isn't merely about the ads themselves; it's about the _underlying business model_ of commercial network broadcasting vs public broadcasting. Commercial networks' incentives are squarely in line with the incentives of their advertisers, but publicly-funded broadcasters incentives are more in line with their users, because their funding is derived most directly from them.