Is there anyone left out there who hasn’t been sucked into TV Land – British (or American) style – who can still attest to life devoid of the culturally (politically) requisite 3.75 hours of daily TV watching, or 26.25 hours per week? It’s worth noting that Deborah Orr tells us within her below article, published in today’s Independent newspaper, that these figures only include broadcast television, not watching DVDs, films in cinemas, YouTube or other internet-broadcast content. FULL ARTICLE
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As long as we stay plugged in to the state’s mouthpieces – the mainstream print, radio and tv media sources – then we’ll continue to be spoonfed what they want us to hear. Personally, i just tune all that junk out.
My parents gave me no more than an hour of tv per day. Now it’s my generation that’s far too lazy to do our own parenting and leave all the leg work to the idiot box.
Well, I don’t know if it’s a trend (I hope it is), but I and most of my friends (mid-twenties to mid- thirties) are completely tuned out. Most of us register a big goose egg on the scale used by that study.
It’s all garbage, except for the few choice bits we choose to grab later on DVD or online. Me, I’ve got a 46″ LCD screen and NO CABLE. That’s my computer monitor, that is.
Hey Dave, I’m right there with you. Still have some friends who seem to get everything from TV – entertainment, information, what to buy, what to eat, and on and on.
I’ve recently cut back on my extremely low tv time to about 1-2 hours during the week. total.
It’s pretty liberating and giving me more time to get through reading Man, Economy, and State
Thanks, guys, for the thumbs-up on this piece and, Michael, for seeing fit to publish it.
It’s also good to see cogently written comments in follow-up to an article, an observation which speaks volumes concerning PopulistAmerica.com readers. So, Michael, you are to be congratulated (and thanked again) for doing what you do, and for doing it so well.
Although I had earmarked some time this evening to work on a story inspired by way of a creative writing course my wife and I have organized in our fair village, I made the tactical error of reading a couple articles in the Guardian, deciding to post one of them (concerning some very disturbing trends among young people in Britain as well as the US) to my iNoodle.com, and then being drawn in, first, to writing a response to introduce the piece, much as I did with the Deborah Orr article published last week in the Independent.
It’s still in the writing, but should it come to completion in such a way as to seem worthy of Michael’s attention, I will forward it on for his consideration.
So stay tuned (if not tuned-in!) …
Respectfully yours,
Sean
As things keep getting worse and worse, especially with war and the economy, I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more and more people tuning out of the mainstream garbage, and seeking information through independent sources like this one. Now that’s change!
You make a good point, Sean. Well-thought comments like those here do give some additional hope that we’re not alone in this.
Looking forward to your next article, and hope to see some additional comments from you on other posts around here.
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