In this article Dreyfuss thinks that TV is our ruination because the images short circuit our ability to ruminate about events. I think he may have a good point. I think that I like the blogs because people here DO ruminate about issues and ideas and they DO come up with some interesting analysis. We get analysis you don’t find on the TV and some you don’t find in print.
There was also an article in the KC Star saying that we spend 9 hours a DAY using the media. They counted where we were multitasking and they counted web use along with the tv.
So how can we take back our lives from TV? Or do we need to? I find that I am drawn more and more to my PC and more and more to the blog community rather than to the flesh and blood community, although I do work outside the home and I do spend time with my grown up daughters. But the pull worries me. Are we losing our ability to connect with each other because we are becoming addicted to various computer/tv/video/you name it pieces of technology? TV has been blamed for autism, although I suspect that cannot be true. But I wonder if we are not creating another kind of autism when we watch tv or videos or get hooked on computer games?
This community is very diverse and has lots of experience embedded within it. What do you all think?