Television and I have broken up. The romance was over decades ago. I got better news from National Public Radio, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. The video news clips I watch are all online. My major loss is that I miss all the commercials.
I am such a poorly educated consumer. I stumble my way through the aisles of the supermarket without having the guidance needed to pick the right products and lacking the knowledge of what’s hot and what’s not. I shop by intuition. Which puts a huge limitation on my knowledge of what is most current! How do I cope? By walking the aisles like a zombie and grabbing what we’ve liked in the past, and sometimes by what catches my eye.
The news? I have no favorites on any of the networks. When I am told that someone is leaving a show after thirteen years, I say, ” Who?” Worse I can not identify anyone on Fox! I hate to admit that they are all just botoxed faces to me.
I am incorrigible, and I suspect that nothing will change my habits.
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I broke up with TV in the late 90’s. I just got tired of being told what I needed to buy!
I broke up with TV in the 2010s, inadvertently, after my flat-screen was stolen. I never bothered to replace it. Now though, with things that used to be ad free, like YouTube and Prime Video, being moneytized, I’m afraid its next to impossible to get away from it. Joke’s on them for me, ‘cuz I’m too poor to buy into things even if I wanted to–which I generally don’t.
I pay the extra for YouTube- but only so I can watch movies!
I think you have the right idea – pay only for what you want and need.
I can’t afford to spend money I valueless junk, and most of it is junk.
We are poorly-educated consumers too. Utterly clueless. Plus we start watching so many series, then forget about them, then come across them months later, notice that the first however-many episodes have been viewed and wonder if our accounts have been hacked.
That sometimes happens to me with E books.
Oh my gosh–the Botox faces. They all look alike! And the MAGA face? Yeah, we don’t need that…
The MAGA face? I wish I didn’t know about it.
Me too.
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Maybe they are clones?
I watch Italian TV, but my favorite is a French cop show set in the Alps on the border with Italy. Mountain Detectivein English; Alex Hugo in French. I don’t remember the last time I watched network TV but I think it was in the late 90s.