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09-20-2008, 10:04 PM
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 |  One-Week Media Fast ...
I was watching TV the other day and realized that many commercials are about food (junk foods), cleaning/beautifying (body or object), and gadgets (cars, ipods). No TV, internet surfing (unless it's work/project-related), watching videos on Youtube, and checking news for a week. Anyone wish to join me? By the way, thanks for letting me post my experiments here, Steve. |
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09-24-2008, 07:25 AM
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Well, I peeked tonight. Yahoo! Mail has a news section, which comes up when you check your account. When I saw a pretty juicy headline tonight, I had to check it out. It hasn't felt like a real media fast since I was still checking e-mail. If I need a real break, I will need to cease e-mail checking as well. My vegetarian/mostly raw diet went out the window these past few days due to my craving for salt and stress. I feel like I'm losing control. I probably need to get some seaweed. |
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11-25-2008, 06:22 PM
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How's it going? I just started a news fast 7 days ago. Just posted it here: News Media Fast...join me! Your first post was in Sept. Still going? |
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11-25-2008, 06:33 PM
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I haven't watched the news in years. I find it pretty useless to me. I have also gone years without tv on and off. I currently enjoy watching tv and movies whenever the mood strikes me, but it is a conscious decision and not to avoid boredom. It is a pretty cool experiment to see how much time one actually has in a day with out tv/internet and also how much of your thought patterns are being directed by it. You figure tv, commercials, news etc... is a one way communication. It is only coming at you and never open to discussion. I remember an old friend once told me, the smartest people who watch television- talk back at their tv sets. I didn't get it at first, but now it makes sense. JAX -having fun talking back to his tv.
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11-29-2008, 04:43 AM
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Years ago I got Tivo and started only watching my shows when I wanted to watch them. I've been on a news fast since well before then... no TV, no paper, no online news sites. I figure if something is important enough to know about, it will find a way to reach me anyway. And if I want to find something out about a particular topic, I can just google it.
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