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[deckardcanine]

From Express:

151: The amount of time, in hours, the average American older than 2 years spent watching television per month in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Nielson Co. That was up from 146 hours during the same period in 2007.

Gee whiz, I knew that TVs outnumbered toilets in the average American home, but an average of about five hours a day? I could probably count on my fingers... well, and maybe my toes... the days in my life that I've had the TV on for five or more hours. And most of those days would have video games accounting for the bulk of that time.

Either these average and above-average people have too much time on their hands -- probably exacerbated by unemployment rates -- or they're much better than I am at multitasking. Or both. Whichever, I'm grateful to my parents for setting a default limit of 1.5 hours of "screen time" during my childhood. (The default was suspended for family viewings of movies.)

Comments

[mwalimu.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've averaged even 5 hours per month since I had to drop most cable TV channels about a year ago. Even then most of my viewing was 2 or 3 channels and those were often on as background while I was doing other stuff at the computer. Now I listen to music instead.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

And I almost don't watch TV programming at all now, the Academy Awards being a notable exception.

[octan.livejournal.com]

I thought if anything it would be down, what with the Internet competing for its attention and all.