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National TV Turn Off Week
beforewisdom writes "Next week (April 19th - 25th 2004) is National TV Turn Off Week in the USA. Among the many benefits claimed by tvturnoff.org is that 90% of the people who participate in a TV Turnoff Week successfully reduce the amount of television they watch permanently."
I stopped watching commercials several years ago when we got our ReplayTV. Now on those rare occasions when live TV is on, the ads are rather startling. I also find that ads on the radio feel more intrusive now that I don't put up with them on TV.
The entertainment industry is one of the biggest industries in the US (if not the biggest)
Are you sure about that? Compare it to the computer industry. The top US entertainment companies for 2003 made:
Total $163B. In comparison, look at the top computer companies:
Total $268B, in an industry that has many more small players, so the total industry revenues would be even further apart.
And even that's nothing compared to a really big industry, like the automotive industry. Ford and GM *each* made more money than the entire entertainment industry. And the oil industry makes the auto industry look small.
The entertainment industry is big, but it's not nearly as big as people think it is. It has influence that is all out of proportion with its real scale.
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By the by, that quote is from "Psychology : The Science of Behavior" by Niel Carlson et. al. which I just so happened to have beside me because of my psych exam this morning.
-- "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." Jean Jacques Rousseau