I think the system of daily papers and nightly news is collapsing. $5 says it won't be around at all in 10 years.
Hey, that's the same thought that occupies half of Rush Limbaugh's radio show. He loves to report the latest downsizing at a media company or bad economic news for "the drive-by media."
I haven't even had a TV for almost a year now.
Good for you; time is better wasted on the internet, and I mean that sincerely. Television just isn't worth the time or the money. I've been in a lot of run-down houses owned by people just scraping by, but there's always a nice, big TV with a DVD, VCR or cable along with it. My TV is an old, pre-remote, wood-cabinet model that someone gave us, and the VCR was free too. There is no antenna, cable or anything else bringing in programming.
[life story] My folks had an old TV like that, but it broke when I was about four. We did without one, until a few years later someone gave us a new, 13" B&W. My dad always thought the rest of the family watched it too much, and one day I wimped out of doing some yard work on a hot summer day. When my dad found out, the TV went into the attic, never to come out again, until we eventually sold it. My folks got a TV and VCR when I went to college. In the twelve years since, I've had TV off and on. My wife had foregone TV at the time I met her, and we will definitely will not have it when kids come along. [/life story]
