According to recent Nielsen Ratings, Americans are watching less television these days.<\/p>\n
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Could that really be true? Are we becoming a healthier society with fewer couch potatoes?<\/p>\n
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It has media researchers in a quandary and marketers in a tizzy.<\/p>\n
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There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much question to me what may be happening.<\/p>\n
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For one thing, now you can see most of the major shows on the internet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6anytime you want them after the actual show has aired. That means, of course, that if you have a blackberry or some other kind of devise like that, you could literally sit on the bench in a park during lunchtime and watch that show you missed last night.<\/p>\n
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Heaven forbid that you would have to miss one if you were out taking a healthy stroll or playing with the kids in the backyard.<\/p>\n
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Right?<\/p>\n
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Then there are always the fancy DVD capabilities to record a show. I still use VHS if I feel the need to record anything but why would I even do that if I know I can get it on the internet?<\/p>\n
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No, I suspect we are watching just as much as we did before\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but now we can view shows when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s convenient for us. Before long, it may make little difference when it comes on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just as long as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s available in other media outlets. Think about it. You can get entire season offerings of many a show on DVD at the store and just take a weekend to watch it all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6with NO commercials.<\/p>\n
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Now that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a thought.<\/p>\n
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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you find a healthy balance of watching television and spending quality time with friends and family. Television is not essential, but being with family and friends can make you a much healthier and happy person.<\/p>\n \n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n \n I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go for a walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to recent Nielsen Ratings, Americans are watching less television these days. Could that really be true? Are we becoming a healthier society with fewer couch potatoes? It has media researchers in a quandary and marketers in a tizzy. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much question to me what may be happening. For one thing, now you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,22,16,27,18,31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends-gatherings","category-friendship","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-parenting-families","category-releationships-general","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}