Preference Personnelle
Friday, October 18
 
Welcome, capitalization. And, to celebrate, here's a Friday Five:

1. How many TVs do you have in your home?
There's one in the living room, and one, not plugged in, in an upstairs bedroom.

2. On average, how much TV do you watch in a week?
A couple hours a day times seven days equals... maybe 15-20 hours in an average week. Damn, that's a lot of teevee.

3. Do you feel that television is bad for young children?
I feel lack of parental supervision is bad for young children. And focusing on the same distance for long periods might not be good for their eyes. Also, the teevee could fall on the child--I remember scary but somehow tantalizing stickers on the A/V carts when I was in elementary school. As to whether teevee programming is bad for children, well, it seems pretty clear to me that one must decide on a program-by-program basis. Good programs, off the top of my head, include Sesame Street and presidential debates. Bad programs include animated programs that serve largely as cross-promotion opportunities.

4. What TV shows do you absolutely HAVE to watch, and if you miss them, you're heartbroken?
New Simpsons episodes, Frontline, the King of the Hill murder mystery 2-parter. Still, though, 'heartbroken' might be a little strong.

5. If you had the power to create your own television network, what would your line-up look like?
I envision lots of news, documentaries, jazz concerts, shorts, Schoolhouse Rock, reruns of short-lived prime-time animated shows, 20-year-old episodes of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts and 3 a.m. Law & Order reruns. Oh, and music videos that other networks refused to play ("What it Feels Like for a Girl," "This Note's for You," "Natural Born Killaz" and "By the Time I Get to Arizona" come to mind), and that Robert Smigel media-opoly short.

 
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