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Originally Posted by barryem
I'm 78 and I live in a retirement home. Probably 1/3 of the tenants here do some reading and quite a few of those, me included, do a lot of reading.
Of the other 2/3 all that I'm aware of watch TV fairly regularly. A few of those claim they used to like to read but when I try to find out what they've read or when I get vague answers and I have doubts that they really ever did much reading after they got out of school.
I don't own a TV and haven't for most of my life. I used to sometimes watch TV shows at friend's houses. Now I'll watch some TV shows on the internet. But I probably spend more time reading than watching TV and among readers, even elderly ones, I don't think that's uncommon.
Barry
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I had a great uncle who was born in 1900 (made keeping track of his age easy) and whenever I went over to their place he was
always planted in front of the TV. And this was before cable had gobs of channels. Now I have some young neighbors and they have 3 or 4 boys and they're rarely playing in the back yard regardless of the weather and whenever I've been over there they're all in front of the TV. One time I was talking to the father out in their back yard and they even have a TV on the patio.
What bothers me is that there is so much garbage on TV and people don't realize how the "race to the bottom" in quality of TV shows is so pervasive, even on things like PBS and the BBC. You can't see it until you go cold turkey on TV for a few years.