Turning Off TV

jlotus · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: Katie Couric needs TV-B-Gone

Katie Courec writes

This week in Newsweek, writer Allison Wood complains about seeing television everywhere, and I think we're on the same wavelength.

It's in your living room, the kitchen, the bedroom. Leave home and hail a taxi, it's there too. A lot of cabs now have little TV screens bombarding you with news and weather as you head to wherever you're going.

Get out of the cab and go into the office building and TV's in the elevator. Head to the doctor's office and there's another TV in the waiting room, constantly on. Leave work at the end of the day and TV's in the restaurant or the bar, even the supermarket. And of course, in airports too.

We used to have to contend with Muzak, now we're being overwhelmed by Viewzak. Can't we just sit and dream and think? I work in TV and I love it, but let's face it, TVs that are everywhere and always turned on are a real turn-off. That's a page from my Notebook, I'm Katie Couric, CBS News.