This is much better handled in languages with pattern matching. And you can match on arbitrary fields.

Erlang:

  surf(Channels) ->
    lists:foreach(fun process/1, Channels).
  
  process(#channel{genre = "football"} = Channel) ->
    record(Channel);
  
  process(#channel{genre = "comedy", repeat = false} = Channel) ->
    record(Channel);
  
  process(#channel{genre = "crime", show_title = "Cops"}) ->
    skip;
  
  process(#channel{genre = "crime"} = Channel) ->
    record(Channel);
  
  process(_) ->
    skip.

Full gist: http://gist.github.com/250304