[lit-ideas] Re: Poetry and Madness
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:20:06 EDT
One thing these groups may not be considering is those people (my husband is
one) who just leaves the tv on regardless of what's on while he goes about
doing his stuff at home -- bringing firewood in, mowing, whatever -- he just
doesn't bother to turn it off and if something on it catches his attention
he'll watch for a bit. It took me a long time to get used to this life-long
habit of his (I used to only turn the tv on if I wanted to see something
particular). But our household having the tv on doesn't necessarily or even
frequently mean someone's watching it. I wonder how many others just leave it
on as
sort of white noise?
Julie Krueger
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Madness Date: 10/22/2006 5:37:41 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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>> â the average amount of time that U.S. households spent reading and
listening to poetry
>> during the yearlong 2005-06 TV season that ended last week increased by
three minutes, to
>> a record of eight hours and 14 minutes.
>
> Just for the sake of comparison (and - as I look into my troubled soul -
no doubt, to ease
> a masochistic itch), could someone please post the *daily* average amount
of time that
> U.S. households spent watching TV during that same season?
According to Nielsen (TV rating), the average American home watches 7 hours
40 minutes of TV
per day.
So...
8 hr 14 min. of poetry per year.
7 hrs 40 min per day X 365 days = 2920 hrs of TV per year.
Not even 1%.
More numbers:
Number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes
elementary school: 8,000
Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000
Percentage of Americans who believe TV violence helps precipitate real life
mayhem: 79%
Number of 30-second TV commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000
Number of TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65: 2 million
Rank of food products/fast-food restaurants among TV advertisements to kids:
1
Percentage of local TV news broadcast time devoted to advertising: 30
Percentage devoted to stories about crime, disaster and war: 53.8
Percentage devoted to public service announcements: 0.7
Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges: 59
Percentage who can name at least three justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: 17
Millions of Americans are so hooked on television that they fit the criteria
for substance
abuse as defined in the psychiatric manual, according to Rutgers University
psychologist and
TV-Free America board member Robert Kubey. Heavy TV viewers exhibit five
dependency
symptoms--two more than necessary to arrive at a clinical diagnosis of
substance abuse.
These include:
1) using TV as a sedative;
2) indiscriminate viewing;
3) feeling loss of control while viewing;
4) feeling angry with oneself for watching too much;
5) inability to stop watching; and
6) feeling miserable when kept from watching.
http://www.tvturnoff.org/factsheets.htm
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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