The Politics of TV Viewing
Conservative media critic Michael Medved writes about a new study that suggests a correlation between the amount of TV one watches and how liberal one is politically (and socially). That is, watch a lot of TV, and you're likely to be liberal; watch little, and you're likely to be conservative.
I don't know how much stock to put in these findings, and you can take or leave Medved's analysis of them, but I will say this: I am not only a light TV viewer, I am a ZERO TV viewer. (At least for now I am. In the fall I will watch football if the Patriots are on TV, which is never often enough in SoCal. Even still, this is three hours a week, max.)
And I fall predictably into all the "conservative" categories -- I even correspond with the supposedly anomalous trend of light TV watchers to gravitate toward the "liberal" position on immigration.
I'd be curious to know what our readers and my fellow bloggers think of this ...
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