Has Product Placement Made Our Television Viewing Experience Worse?

HAS PRODUCT PLACEMENT MADE OUR TELEVISION VIEWING EXPERIENCE WORSE?
[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Alicia Rebensdorf]
[Commentary] In a world of Tivo and Youtube, the traditional commercial is passe. In its place we have product integration, which may feed a culture of consumption, compromise artistic freedom and erode consumer choice. A call against advertising creep is often marginalized as extreme or anti-American. But the opposite of product integration is not communism, it's consent. And if we can't always have the freedom of such choice, it's important that as media consumers, we at least force the conversation.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/52069/