September 12, 2007
That whole TV thing is just so yesterday
Industry watcher and columnist Ray Richmond for The Hollywood reporter shares a personal experience - his son's complete disdain for television.
"I am a TV critic, and my kid doesn't watch TV. ... He looks at conventional television as if it's some Neanderthal extension of an 8-track tape deck, and if that isn't the TV industry's worst nightmare, it surely ought to be.
As a new fall network primetime television season dawns, Josh could not possibly be less interested. He's a computer geek, but his disdain for the tube can't merely be ascribed to his geekdom. It's about a generation that has little or no use for the TV culture that we adults grew up on but is rapidly striding toward obsolescence.
... "So you don't ever have the desire to watch any television?" I asked, my incredulity reaching a crescendo, certain that my synapses were suffering a brief misfiring episode.
"What I want to watch, I download onto my laptop," he said, adding for emphasis, "and it's all free."
[via Ypulse]
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