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Anyone ever stop watching TV ?

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TatonkaJames Donating Member (42 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jul-15-09 11:46 PM
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Anyone ever stop watching TV ?
As a writer I found myself watching the news, movies and Yankee games for quite a good portion of the day. With a couple
of projects in the making, about five weeks ago I turned the set off. I was getting frustrated with the spin from every
news station and I decided I was going to put 100% of my attention toward my writing. When I'm not writing, I read constantly.
After the first few days I was sort of getting withdrawal symptoms, I felt I was going to miss something worthy, not be up on the
latest, however they subsided with each passing day. So it's been five weeks and to my surprise I have no urge to watch one bit.
I may at some point decide to watch a game since I have to rest from sitting up since my back surgery but I prefer reading for ideas
with which to write about.
Anyone else ever stop watching ? For what reasons ? Have you gone back ?
Just wondering. :hippie:
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   From about 1998-2002  Mojambo   Jul-21-09 09:45 PM   #1 
   I didn't watch TV from about 1973 to 1984  The empressof allDU Moderator   Jul-30-09 08:47 PM   #2 
   Dude, you bet. I have stopped watching many, many times. There  david13   Aug-29-09 05:05 PM   #3 
   I tried earlier this year...  BJ10   Sep-16-09 05:57 PM   #4 
   I haven't stopped completely, but  Lydia Leftcoast   Nov-13-09 03:20 PM   #5 
 
Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-21-09 09:45 PM
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1. From about 1998-2002
It was okay. Read a bit more. Listened to a lot of radio.

Now the whole dynamic has changed I don't really watch TV. But I do watch certain tv shows that I download. I probably watch 10-12 hours a week.
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The empressof all DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-30-09 08:47 PM
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2. I didn't watch TV from about 1973 to 1984
Edited on Thu Jul-30-09 08:48 PM by The empressof all
At the time I didn't miss it...I was busy with school and being young and rowdy. Now that I'm old I miss a lot of the popular culture references to that time and I couldn't name a TV show that I recall from that time. Am I better for having gone without. Probably not...But it did no lasting significant harm either.

Television is part of our culture. It is what it is. It becomes a problem when it controls your daily routine. We also now have a much wider selection of programming which gives us greater choice in what we allow into our homes. Thank goodness for Tivo. :rofl:
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david13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-29-09 05:05 PM
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3. Dude, you bet. I have stopped watching many, many times. There
were even periods when I had no tv, or only a small one, or only I watched someone else's. It only makes it that much better when you go back to it.
But seriously, it's mostly trash and garbage. There is maybe 10 or 20% of it that has any value at all. But I never jump on the bandwagon with everyone else. "Oh, everybody's watching ..." whatever.
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BJ10 Donating Member (13 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Sep-16-09 05:57 PM
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4. I tried earlier this year...
I removed my cable TV and I made it for over a month...best thing that ever happened to me because DirecTV is Awesome. ;-)
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-13-09 03:20 PM
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5. I haven't stopped completely, but
the networks, including the cable networks, have gotten trashier and trashier (like I should care about the attractive but brainless exhibitionists on all those "reality" shows?), removing whatever intelligent content they used to have (there was a time when both Discovery and A&E rivaled PBS for fine documentaries and dramas, and Bravo centered on uninterrupted foreign films) and gone to sensationalism and air-headed content.

When BBC America went the reality show route (yes, I know they have them in the UK, but they have other things too), coincidentally with a slow period in my business, I canceled cable except for basic-basic (local channels, public access, and CNN only).

As a result, I watch PBS almost exclusively, except for the International Mysteries on MHz Worldview TV, but even more than that, I watch DVDs, either from my own collection (I have ordered several series from the UK) or from Netflix.

Between my mail order queue and the movies/programs in my Instant View queue, who has time for broadcast TV?
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