Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Why No Uprising?
Answer:
Viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices — the Three Screens — continues to increase and has hit record levels. Nielsen’s fourth quarter A2/M2 Three Screen Report reports that the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high. They are also watching several hours of video on other devices: those who watch it on the Internet consume another 3 hours of online video per month, and those who use mobile video watch nearly 4 hours per month on mobile phones and other devices.
This un-discussed deepening addiction, a cardinal aim, requirement, and symptom of core-country corporate capitalism/market totalitarianism, also explains why most Obama voters haven’t begun to realize how massively and completely baited-and-switched they’ve been.
December 31st, 2009 at 3:42 am
Items from the Ad Age Annual « Coreys Views said:
[...] penetration of commercial image-projection within everyday life in the United States. No wonder TV addiction continues to worsen, (1) despite the appalling awfulness, narrowness, and fourth-rate derivateness of the vast majority [...]