history of britain in front of the tv

Is TV a waste of time?
Jay Doubleyou: turn off your tv
Does TV make us stupid?
Jay Doubleyou: dumbing us down
On the other hand, it's all 'listening practice'...
What sort of things have you been watching on TV?

There's a new book out about the history of Britain 'in front of the TV'
Looks cosy, doesn't it?



Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV by Joe Moran – review | Books | The Observer

But here's a much more critical few lines from the same book:



... his passage on The X Factor, which he describes as "a grotesque caricature of democracy". "It claimed to be empowering but was actually infantilising. The utopian promise of democratic interactivity held out at the start of the digital era was now reduced to a single phone call, a triumph of direct-line consumerism." 

Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran – review | Books | The Guardian
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