If they turn off the tube, could their lives improve? 01:20 PM CDT on Saturday, April 17, 2004 By STEVE BLOW / The Dallas Morning News A job in journalism takes you into a lot of different homes. And I mean from mansions to shacks. One thing I noticed almost from the very start – the poorer the home, the more prevalent the television. By that, I partly mean the television set itself. I was surprised to go into tiny, ramshackle homes and find an enormous, big-screen television wedged into the living room. But more than that, I noticed that...