Lets play a little game right now: EVERYONE TURN OFF YOUR TV

This is a game where everyone can win. Seriously. Just TURN OFF YOUR TV. Stop complaining about the damn thing and how they aren't reporting the news that is important to us (you're right, they aren't and they won't). If you have to have it on, ok, put in a DVD or something. Personally I'm listening to music on my stereo as I read and type here at DU. You can do what ever you want.

Now, post how you feel below.

POWERFUL, isn't it!

:)

YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR MEDIA INPUT.

YOU CAN CONTROL WHERE YOU PLACE YOUR ATTENTION.

And doing so is empowering. The emperor's slight of hand can't work if YOU have control of your attention.

By the way, thanks for playing!

:hi:

like to HBO or something else that isn't news?

I'm not trying to dictate what people OUGHT to do so much as point out that we CAN control our media input. I stopped watching TV after the 2000 election. I don't even watch it for entertainment. I HATE commercials and the so called "news" is even worse. It's just junk food for the brain.

I can and do live without it.

Now if I could only get a handle on my other intake habits ;)

all that interesting. I can understand the fun in watching how they try to manipulate us in to BUYING THEIR CORPORATE REALITY but, personally, I just got fed up with it all.

No more for me. EVER.

And I'm quite happy about that! :)

and send a MSG they will understand, less $$$

peace

via satellite and it costs us $102.00 a month. We have everything they offer.

I told him we would get a lot of things done around the house.

I think the above comment is what scared him. He thought he actually might have to remove his butt from his recliner.

I want to do something else.

That just struck my funny bone!:rofl:

favorite movies with 0 late fees.

thats what got my kids over the hump :hi:

peace

SWEET!!!

CNN&FAUX?

Will you let me? Pretty please with sugar on top?

I haven't watched TV for FIVE YEARS so, if this is a 'show', I have no idea what you are talking about.

Guess I'm just an old foggy. :(

She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal

Well, she pressed her chest against me
About the time the jukebox broke
She give me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke

Blow Up Your TV, throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own

I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
Cause I knew that topless lady, she had something up her sleeve
She danced around the room awhile and she did the hoochy cooch
Yea sing a song all night long tellin' me what to do

Blow Up Your TV, throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own

But I was young and hungry and about to leave that place
Just as I was going she looked me in the face

I said "You must know the answer"
She said "No, but I'll give it a try"
And to this day we've been livin' our way
Here is the reason why

We blew up the TV, threw away the paper
Went to the country, built us a home

Had a lotta children, fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own

Although I haven't found Jesus yet, though.

Or, maybe I have--it just doesn't look like anybody else's kind of Jesus.

:grouphug:

Seinfeld is on ...... The one where Susan's doll looks like George's mother ....

Fuckin Hilarious .....

I'd love to, but my wife is watching "Medium".

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

I control what is on my TV. Whether it is by only viewing shows I specifically decide to at the time I specifically decide to. Or using it as a medium to view programming from around the world rather than limiting myself the content my local broadcasters or cable wish me to view.

The net provides the resources one needs to create whatever function you wish your TV to serve. It takes the control away from the corporations.

and then pointed it at the TV itself?

It is called video feedback looping.

FINALLY something to make TV worth watching!

It was on yesterday, to watch a movie on DVD.

This is usually the case in my house. MSM is crap, why even turn the bloody thing on?

I use my TV as a plant stand. Actually, it still works and I could turn it on if anything real dramatic ever happened (like another 9/11) and I wanted to get some images. But for now it just sits there with the plants covering it up.

Quite funny, actually. Most people don't even notice it is there.

(with no HD programming at this time, maybe Voom someday.)

I work in the video world, and use it as a monitor sometimes when I'm dubbing.

Otherwise, mostly movies. Every once in awhile I'll tune a local news program to see why I don't miss working for those vampires anymore.

He's learning how to us it currently shooting lots of footage of PRO-CAR (Porche) racing. Just produced visuals for a 50 inch plasma screen for one of the racing companies. and has edited a video to play on a Sony PSP.

Almost sounds like I know what I'm talking about, hugh?

Create your own media reality anyone?

it feels great every day! has for years.

andy weil, in his book '8 weeks to optimum health,' recommends taking a 7-day 'news fast.' he says to notice how you feel when you're not being inundated with the negativity of the news. he doesn't say to never watch the news again, but just to notice how it affects you.

oh well, too late!

did feel good though..

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Hit the MSM where it hurts.

Boycott!

The West Wing is on. I do control where I place my attention. Sometimes I place my attention on the TV.

The "emperor" has bever had control of my attention.

various passions, our sense of goodness and justice and virtue.

Too bad the * presidency isn't anything LIKE that.

EDIT TO ADD: You know, I don't miss it now that I haven't watched it or any other 'show' for over five years. I really don't.

Good grief, the REAL world is far more entertaining (and bizarre) than anything anyone could ever imagine.

I have gone through phases where I have given up television completely, and I don’t “miss” it in the sense that there is plenty else to occupy my needs for entertainment, etc. during those times. But it is completely possible to use the TV instead of letting the TV take over…. My kids only have one show they enjoy, and I only watch the West Wing on Bravo on Monday nights and the Daily Show on Comedy Central. I haven’t watched “news” in years, nor have I watched most of the shit they put out nowadays. I keep it for the couple of shows I like don’t apologize for keeping it.

Remember, too…. It can be a force for good. Ever see Free Speech TV?

Easier to just pay my internet bill, and maybe netflix (which I do enjoy right now). And really, if something big happens, I can stream video over the net. Yayyyy.

I'll turn it back on at 11:00 for Jon.

This is a game you can play ANY TIME OF THE DAY. Just turn the damn thing OFF and YOU WIN!!!

Now, I'm going to make my supper.

BMU

My TV just whispered to me that we should turn off DU.

Insidious little thing.

My TV is only on when the kids want to watch cartoons. The only thing I watch on it are movies. Every once in awhile I decide to watch the news, as I did tonight. After flipping between MSNBC, Fox and CNN for an hour I remembered why I don't watch the news. They don't report it.

number of threads with the subject line: "CNN SUCKS!"

So perhaps people are subliminally heeding your advice.

and I'm listening to KPFA right now.

I don't even miss the Daily Show, to be honest. Although, I was glad to be able to catch the Bolton meeting on the TV downstairs.

When i have kids, they aren't going to know what a tv is:D. They'll be way too busy being read to.

but it's usually on the Weather Channel.
It's just a matter of time though before they are banned from the airways now that they are reporting that Global Warming is a fact.

But now that the wife is sick she got it to watch movies and to laugh at Nancy Grace. What I really hate are those annoying public TVs. For those try this http://www.tvbgone.com/home.php

It's great. They just babble anyway. Sounds like a bunch of noise.

not any others. Not even The News Hour which I have watched religiously for 30 years. After the election...no more.

for background noise, and I've cut way back. Still gotta have the Daily Show, some CSPAN, and comedy, though.