How many of you don't have a TV

[Warpy]

50. I didn't have a TV for a lot of years in the late 60s

and I've tended to gravitate toward evening and night shifts, which accomplished about the same thing. The TV only came in handy during periods of poverty, when I'd catch up on what people had been talking about.

I didn't get a satellite hookup until 2006, when I got my corneal transplant and couldn't see very well at all. I'd seen cable TV only when I visited my parents or other people who had it.

These days, it's set on geeky or arty fare and about the only time I actually watch the monster is when foreign or silent films with subtitles are on and worth seeing.

Televised news, either cable or broadcast, had proven itself utterly useless and I turned it off for the last time in 2004. If it's important, I'll see a video on You Tube. And it's true, you get news much more quickly online and generally from on scene observers. You just have to filter the rumor mill extensively.