More on Teevee

I just finished listening to an NPR OnPoint program dealing with What's Next for TV. Host Tom Ashbrook interviewed Frank Rose, author of the Deep Media blog, who is working on a book about how narrative is changing through new ways of delivering entertainment.

Part way through the program, Ashbrook played this advertisement for Hulu.com, which features 30 Rock star, Alec Baldwin. It's pretty hilarious- a great tongue-in-cheek way of promoting TV:



James Poniewozik, TV critic for Time magazine, responded to the Hulu ad with this quote:

"This is an eternal truth about TV. I like to say that the only thing more popular than television is hating television. Americans love to watch television and they universally believe that they're destroying themselves by watching TV. There seems to be no contradiction in that for them."

That quote definitely resonates with me. I don't own a television set, and have been rather proud of that for years now. BUT, I do own a laptop and have certainly watched more and more video in the past few years. So do I own a "TV" or not. I'm thinking yes. There was a guest later in the show that claimed that after ditching his TV, his IQ "rose from 117 points to 138 points. I get all my news from NPR and the internet..." If I ever say anything like that, someone publicly flog me.

We've talked about video a lot lately. How much TV/internet video do you watch?