Wednesday 27 February 2013

Television - entertaining ourselves to death?


There are various statistics about who watches television and how much television people watch - and none of them seem particularly reliable. However the real, on-the-ground truth seems to be that most people, in countries where it's available, watch television. 

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Most television watchers use television as a default position - "I'm free, there's nothing else I need to do right now, I'll see what's on television". Some people who have problems in their lives - loneliness and/or isolation, no job,