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Article: Watching America: What Television Tells Us about Our Lives.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 7, 1991
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HOMER SIMPSON, the sage of Hollywood, had it right when he said, "The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV." Life's problems are laid out between the first and second commercial breaks and answered before the last. The whole process takes 27 minutes or, for those with "long form" endurance, just under 54. The experience is so satisfying that the average American household watches television more than seven hours a day, 365 days a year. And so we have, after two hundred years of melting-pot and constitutional debate blending and regional frottage, filed a hard edge on the American identity: we are a nation of people who watch ...
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