More than 40 years ago I was going through one of my episodes of not having a TV. But I read. A lot. Mostly books, but some magazines. At the time I may have had a subscription to Time Magazine. Anyway, a co-worker was genuinely concerned that I might not know what was going on in the world. We lived in the Washington DC area, which helps account for his concern.
Anyway, every single time he quizzed me on current events I knew what was going on. To his amazement. Because he could not fathom a person who could possibly know what's going on in the world without TV. And this was back when there were only 3 networks.
I am now in the fourth and probably final time in my life without TV. I say final because I cannot begin to imagine having conventional TV ever again. There's the internet. There are books and magazines.
And so far as ordinary TV shows go, I get to watch most of them via the internet. Heck, there is so much good stuff out there that there's no way a person can watch all of it. And that's without having a debate on standards of "good stuff out there".
My kids are long since grown up, but I do wish parents of kids today would put a lot more thought into giving their kids a phone of any kind.
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