On: How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

[bawr]

And likewise, watching selectively is even easier with some peer-to-peer networking and file sharing sites. You can see almost any show you happen to fancy at the moment - and you get to skip the commercials or pause when convenient. Also, most of the time your watching habits aren't recorded by shady companies for unspecified marketing reasons. Even better, there's absolutely no chance of accidentally ending up watching something you didn't plan to, which is the main idea behind corporate TV.

Also - as far as this individual is concerned, popular culture is overrated.

[cabalamat → bawr]

And you don't have to watch stuff according to a schedule that someone else controls.The whole idea of broadcast TV, where everyone watches the same thing on a channel at a time, doesn't make sense except for news and live sports.

[axod → bawr]

>> "popular culture is overrated."

My point is that if you want to have a business, that interacts with people, you better understand popular culture.

[aswanson → axod]

Absolutely correct. That sneering attitude toward the masses is a ticket straight to the poorhouse. I want to understand them better than the understand themselves.

[bawr → axod]

In that case I rest mine.

[jordyhoyt → bawr]

Ding ding ding! You've hit on part of why I don't watch tv. Commercials.

The other reason is that the news is just plain dark.