Broadband Usage Up, TV Usage Down

jZnat writes "BBC Tech News reports that the increased usage of broadband internet in Europe is cutting into the viewing of television. This is mainly due to the decreased price of broadband in Europe and the usefulness of the internet. Is it possible that the usefulness of TV has decreased with the internet so expansive these days?"

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Internet Red Shift

[Doc Ruby]

I'd like to see a graph of Red/Blue county "ratings" for TV vs. Internet. I'd bet that Blue counties favor the Net more than do the Red, in hours spent, as well as growth trends. Internet growth in Red communities will let Red people get around the monopoly old media (newspaper, radio, TV) that feeds them the Republican propaganda that lets them so strongly distrust the direction of the country, the state of the economy, the war in Iraq, yet reelect Bush. Just seeing how diversity of opinion works, and directly communicating with their own people, without their local media corporations kneading their corporate agenda into their worldview. The Soviet Union finally fell apart when pagers, phones and fax machines overwhelmed their centralized lie factories in the 1980s. Even if there's precious little Truth on the Internet, it still might set us free.

Useful?!

[Morthaur]

Is it possible that the usefulness of TV has decreased with the internet so expansive these days?

Huh? Television is 'useful'? You mean to say that I've actually missed out on something useful in the twenty years since I threw out my last set?!