Next week is TV Turnoff Week, a time to take a break from our daily worship of the almighty flat screen. It's designed for families with children to get them to be more active and creative, but it might be an eye-opening exercise for adults, too! Has anyone tossed out their TV recently? How’s it going? Or have you tried the no-TV week before? How do you manage TV time with the kids? Share!
I like TV a lot. It's one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I justify it because I usually watch programs while reading at the same time (TV's too slow for me.) But I confess to being a hopeless news junkie. Even after working all day at the newspaper, I still like all the early and late local news shows plus the national stuff like "Good Morning America," "Meet the Press," "60 Minutes," "Dateline," "Valley Press." I know, it's an addiction. My husband is just as bad, and he's also got sports going somewhere in the house most of his waking hours.
If you want to try to go a week without TV, here is my list of Top 10 suggestions for news junkies:
* Read The Bee (well, of course!) and work the puzzles as a team with your spouse.
* Write a letter to the editor and get something off your chest.
* Post your position on a vital issue on OpinionTalk blog.
* Listen to the latest podcast by Jim Boren and Bill McEwen.
* Read the Web sites of the candidates you love and hate.
* Order your favorite political T-shirts and bumper stickers. (Republican Hottie and Obama mama are among the big sellers).
* Fix the auto-sets on your radio to jump from news station to news station.
* Walk precincts with your favorite candidate.
* Go to the library and read obscure political journals. Write OpinionTalk about what cool stuff you find there.
* E-mail your list of neighborhood priorities to the candidates of your choice.
We need to take a week off from all types of media(TV,Radio,Print,and computer)The upside-discovering its irrelevance in our lives.The downside-missing David Cook's next appearance on A/I.
I am a reality show junkie and would not like to give up my tv time although I could record it and watch it on tevo later. I would love to do this when the June and Nov elections come so I don't have to hear all the political commercials and back stabbing.
see blog entry above..oops