Feel free to draw your own conclusions. To me the bottom line seems to be, the more educated you are, the less TV you watch. I’ve been TV free for 3 years now. But that doesn’t mean I don’t watch TV shows or movies, it just means I don’t own a TV set or pay for a subscription. I get my stuff online, like Euronews to start the day and some sitcom to end it with (30 rock, How I met your mother and The big bang theory), and a movie or two over the weekend. Which would yield about 10 hours a week.

Not having a TV set does reduce the amount of TV I watch, simply because I no longer use a TV as “background noise” as I used to. I no longer keep it on if there’s nothing of interest. Since I have more control over what I watch, I take deliberate actions to download or go to a certain website. I don’t “cruise the channels” anymore in search of something to waste time with or distract me. (I have twitter for that…)

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