August 21, 2005

Six months ago, Amelia Hill turned off her telly – for good One of those articles where someone quits broadcast TV and – shock! – their life improves. I can relate to pretty much everything said here.

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  1. 1 Jez
    Aug 21st, 2005 at 10:18 pm

    What a lot of bollocks :

    “By the age of 18, the average child has sat through 16,000 murders and 200,000 assorted acts of violence”

    Evidence? Please?
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    I hate articles like this, because they’re largely about what a wonderful and strong and moral person the author – “I gave up beer and chips – and I got fitter”, “How one journalist chucked in the rat race and went to live in a yurt”, “Can a single man live without wanking? My tale of survival.” and so on. This is colour supplement article type number 4. Prizes awarded for the other three.

  2. 2 Pete Ashton
    Aug 22nd, 2005 at 11:06 am

    I did say “pretty much”.

  3. 3 Dave C
    Aug 23rd, 2005 at 6:14 pm

    TV has become something that, in britain at least, has become a ‘necessity’ rather than a ‘luxury’. If the tenants heating fails I get a phone call and we might have to order parts for the boiler but they cope. If the aerial on the flats breaks and we have to order parts they threaten to stop paying the rent!

    I’m old enough to remember ‘Why Don’t You’ on kids tv, which had the slogan “turn off the tv set, and do something less boring instead”. Now kids tv exists to sell toys.

    I gave up tv. It didn’t make my life any better, but it sure did stop it getting any worse.

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