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> TV viewership in hours per week is pretty stable because as boomers retire and become disabled and unable to do anything else, they watch more TV. Young people, like under 50, are turning away from TV.

Proof?

>Generation X and younger people have been falling out of love with TV for a long time

Proof?

>TV for kids just sucks these days. The audience isn't kids, it's grandparents who imagine that their grandkids will be entertained by it.

Proof?

>Much like the music industry, the TV industry has been losing it's audience for a long time, and one day they will wake up and realize that their frog has been boiled -- and find somebody else to blame.

Not watching tv doesn't make you cooler.



> Proof?

I don't enjoy feeding trolls often, but I've to ask: would you ask a US WWII veteran for `Proof?' if he were to exclaim, as a matter of fact, that "[his] generation hated the Axis powers before 1941"?

Asking for citations is a poor attempt to discredit another's claims. Why don't you form your own counterargument instead?




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