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Ant writes "This long New York Times article (10 pages; no registration required) reports on the mismeasure of television (TV)." From the article: "One of the great contradictions of modern American life is that almost everyone watches TV while almost no one agrees anymore about what it really means to watch television....when it comes to figuring out how many of us are watching these shows, and whether we're paying attention while we're watching and even whether we're actually noticing the advertisements among the shows we may or may not be watching -- well, this is where things get tricky..."

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  1. Re:Americans love punishment by uhlume · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mod parent up insightful.

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  2. Re:Another weird thing I've noticed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "I some have some bad news?" Haha. Idiot.

  3. Battlestar Galactica by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Do you mean the original show, or the remake? If the remake, I have no idea why people like that show. I mean it is really bad Sci Fi, they took a great show, and then just basically cut it to shreads and made a whole new show out of it with bad plots and even badder acting.

    The only way the new Battlestar Galactica can get worse, is if they made it a reality show.

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  4. Re:The Dumbing-Down of America by bani · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is just part of the bush administration anti-science agenda.

    Of course if you have a "faith-based" agenda, the bush administration has oodles of federal funding available for you!

    I can just see it now. creationist "science" tv, brought to you by a grant from the federal government.

  5. Re:Kill your Television! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, this guy threw away his TV amd you're flaming him for it?!
    What a complete tosser you are.

    Obviously you cannot tolerate people having different perspectives than you.

    What a fuckwit you are.

  6. Re:The Dumbing-Down of America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the idiots who are modding this down are the same fundamentalist morons who believe the bush administration BS that iraq was responsible for 9/11.

    fuck you, /. retards.