Re:mass media impact (Score 1)

Loved that Onion article!! Glad to see you've got a sense of humor about what, while an increasing trend, still seems a bit of an idiosyncrasy. As you mentioned, difficult with children -- probably not impossible, but Very difficult. For me, there is still enough quality stuff on, which if you truly are sans TV, you have shoved in your face every time you mention it. In a way, I am the other stereotype -- the TV snob who would do without a TV were it not for X, Y and Z... with X, Y and Z showing my astute taste in the finer things in life and oh, also not mentioning the other crap that sneaks into my TV diet as a result of the beast being in the room. The DVR has turned the TV into a new animal. For those of us who can't 'do without', it does allow us to minimize our time in front of the Glass Teat as Harlan called it...