One concept that I found particularly amazing in this chapter was the Television portion. I could not believe that the book said that the average American household tuned in to watch about eight hours of television a day. Not only that, but the typical individual viewing a little less than four and half hours of programming daily. This completely shocked me when I read it. I am a student, who also works 30 hours a week, so I might be a little biased, but I can not imagine having eight hours a day dedicated to watching television. I do not have that kind of time. I also cannot even begin to imagine why watching eight hours of television a day would do to/for me. As the book stated, it is a way to provide news, companionship, teaching and socialization, relaxation and escapist entertainment. But there are so many other ways to achieve all of those things, that it it hard to imagine wanting to receive it all from television.
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I am also amazed that people watch that much television. I’m not going to lie when I was younger I was obsessed with TV. I used to watch at least 9 to 10 hours a day. But since I got into college I haven’t had much time to even dedicate to watching TV. Yeah I listen to radio more than ever now, but I only watch about a hour to 2 hours on Television a night. I mostly just stay to watch the news and comedy central but after that I lose interest and go and start to do my homework. I think people watch a lot of people because they don’t like to interact with people.
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