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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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
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.
I did say “pretty much”.
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.