Posted on 01/11/2016 8:57:03 PM PST by Olog-hai
A record-low 16 percent of Americans said that watching television was their favorite way to spending the evening, according to a Gallup poll conducted in December.
Since the 1960s, Gallup has periodically asked Americans what is their "favorite way to spend an evening." In 1966, watching TV hit a high of 48 percent. Since then, that option has been on a generally downward trend. [...]
People 55 and older (25 percent) are more likely to say watching television is their favorite way to spend an evening than are people in the younger age brackets of 18-34 (10 percent) and 35-54 (12 percent).
Unemployed people (19 percent) are also more likely than employed people (14 percent) to say that watching TV is their favorite way to spend an evening. ...
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TV is so passive. I like porn, and gaming, and porn, and commenting on forums, and porn.
Oh, and porn.
Will you hit it?
‘Course now days, the smart TV’s are watching you. ;-)
You are an unusual man....Are you a Christian?
Most current tv is garbage. A lot of older tv shows are too boring, mild/light, and already seen.
And most stuff is not worth sitting through 20 minutes of commercials an hour.
I watch streaming tv and movies now, no commercials. I pick what episodes I want to watch, when I want to watch. I can pause them and do something, then come back to it.
I’m substantially more than a decade beyond that 55 mentioned in the article, but what leisure time I have isn’t in front of any GD television watching crap out of Hollywood. I’m right here at FR mostly with you all.
Oh Yeah I already sent my contribution to the cause. Hope everybody does. Like to see this FReepathon over.
And you’re admitting all of that?
The reason it’s way down is that most of the programs are really poor quality and void of moral standing. Bring back ‘’The Waltons’’, ‘’The Real McCoys’’, and ‘’Leave It to Beaver’’ type programs.
The Carol Burnett show. That was entertainment.
Well, if this is framed as sitting back and watching an evening of “current-tv” fare, I’d find such an endeavor not only ‘not’ relaxing, but downright torturous. Like gazing into the maws of hell. The most bitter pill being the realization that this is the kind of sick swill that large swaths of my (cough) fellow Americans are mentally dining on, contributing to the noxious culture that spits on everything I value.
But, if the question includes sitting back and watching a dvd of an old black-and-white western film, based on a Harold Bell Wright novel in which the building of ‘character’ in an aimless man is the primary plotline, like I did this evening... well, yes, I do find that to be a supremely relaxing and even invigorating excercise.
You lie. You are so imaginative and porn just isn’t. I bet it’s porn, gaming, commenting on forums, more gaming, and just a wee bit more porn. Enjoy. As you get older it will be whining on forums, gaming, thumb arthritis pills, complaining on forums, laxatives, and one last rant before bed.
Why watch TV when there’s Fallout 4?
I wish they’d bring back what was THE GOLDEN AGE of T.V.!
PLAYHOUSE 90 and such, something like TWILIGHT ZONE and/or ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, but writers can’t write anymore and actors and actresses can’t act their way out of a wet, shredded paper bag.
Into my 4th year of self-deprogramming (no tv). Best to all FReepers.
The other night, I saw an episode of a game show from the late 50s/early 60s and the host gave a mailing address on combating Communism. Where our country was and where it is; we need to get back to ridding leftists from leading our society.
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In the early days of T.V. there were two VERY anti-Commie shows that I was glued to and a tiny child; I LED THREE LIVES and I can't think of the other one right now.
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