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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
I wasn't specifically talking about cable-TV, I used it as an example. I'm curious as to other efects on cultural consumption. Stopping newspaper subsscription or magazine subscription. No longer visiting book stores, maybe not going to museums any more? It doesn't have to be limited to TV, it just happened that way for me.
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I used to run a dozen magazine subscriptions; SCIENCE NEWS, BASEBALL AMERICA, THE ECONOMIST, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, DISCOVER, POPULAR SCIENCE, CAR & DRIVER, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, PC MAGAZINE, etc. Plus three book clubs.
Still have the book clubs but I haven't bought anything in two years.
Every once in a while I think of re-subscribing to SCIENCE NEWS and I probably will but I keep forgetting.
There's only so many hours in a day and between webscriptions, SKYRIM & MASS EFFECT, and the *ahem* mandatory activities, there isn't much room left to go beyond the corresponding websites. Not much TV either. (Beyond baseball and CASTLE.)
My mother's not paying much attention to TV these days, either.
(I probably shouldn't have introduced her to James Patterson.)
