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Watching Television
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The amount of time I spend watching television is astonishing. On average, I devote three hours a day to the pursuit--fully half of my leisure time, and more than on any single activity, save work and sleep. At this rate if I live to be 75, I would spend nine years in front of the tube. To some commentators, this devotion means simply that I enjoy TV and make a conscious decision to watch it. But if that is the whole story, why do I experience doubts about how much television I view? In Gallup polls in 1992 and 1999, two out of five adult respondents and seven out of 10 teenagers said they spent too much time watching TV. Other surveys have consistently shown that roughly 10 percent of my fellow adults call themselves TV addicts.
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