Ann Patchett and cutting the cord even more

[Dill]

(09-16-2016, 05:54 PM)xxlt Wrote: Anyway, anybody here that does not own a TV? Tell me about it. Anybody with a compelling reason I should keep my TV? Or get rid of it? Tell me about it.

Thanks for your feedback.

I own a tv but exercise some discipline. I use it basically for three things--news, sports (steeler games and college wrestling) and HBO series.
You have a literary education, right? I think that some HBO offerings, like the Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, and the Wire, are well worth the time spent watching them--like the best 19th century novels in terms of scope and depth.

TVs are bad, though, when they become a means of marking time between work hours. I understand why some people don't have tvs. We have friends who don't. But I think they miss a lot of global knowledge about what is happening in the world.