I broke my connection to the TV when I joined the Navy as a young man. A 7 year stint where routine evening television just wasn't in my lifestyle. I never resumed the habit. I don't pretend to have diverted myself to higher minded evening pursuits - if I am in front of a screen I'll be gaming. I have a small PC with XMBC running and many terabytes of movies and TV shows that I watch - what I want to watch, when I want to watch it. Have not watched free to air television in 20 years. No nightly news, no newspapers. I catch the general gist of the day to day local news just through osmosis with people around me. No twitter, no facebook. Deleted my Reddit account earlier this year (only used it to post on T_D). I still get hit with some MSM leaking through to front pages and sidebars on the internet and it only reinforces how laughably blatant and hamfisted the attempts at programming are.
I broke my connection to the TV when I joined the Navy as a young man. A 7 year stint where routine evening television just wasn't in my lifestyle. I never resumed the habit. I don't pretend to have diverted myself to higher minded evening pursuits - if I am in front of a screen I'll be gaming. I have a small PC with XMBC running and many terabytes of movies and TV shows that I watch - what I want to watch, when I want to watch it. Have not watched free to air television in 20 years. No nightly news, no newspapers. I catch the general gist of the day to day local news just through osmosis with people around me. No twitter, no facebook. Deleted my Reddit account earlier this year (only used it to post on T_D). I still get hit with some MSM leaking through to front pages and sidebars on the internet and it only reinforces how laughably blatant and hamfisted the attempts at programming are.