Americans and the media


Census figures show we spend a lot of time
I am not quite sure why this is bad, although Drudge was certainly trying to sell it as such.

Industry groups provided the information on media usage. They projected Americans will spend an average of nearly 4 1/2 hours daily in front of the television in 2006, or 1,555 hours in all.

Americans will spend another 2 1/2 hours listening to radio and a half hour listening to recorded music. The rest of the nearly 10 hours is spent reading newspapers, looking at the Internet, playing video games and reading other media.

Projections indicate per capita time spent with the Internet will exceed time spent reading newspapers for the first time this year. Americans spend about a half an hour per day on each activity.

It's also deceptive. We tend to do more than one thing at once. Personally I never listen to the radio unless I am driving. I listen to quite a bit more recorded music than that, but then that is me. I also scan headlines and read news stories when I eat. I don't read the paper except for the funnies because the news is too old and isn't hyperlinked.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - December 15, 2006 at 03:45 PM  Tag


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