This Time magazine package on "One Day in America" features less interesting statistics than you may expect. One factoid in the piece is that Washington, D.C., has the second-worst traffic in America (the first is L.A.). No surprise there. However, did you know that "the average U.S. household has more televisions (2.73) than people (2.6)"? That a greater percentage of Americans watch prime-time basic cable (more than 30 percent) than the networks (slightly under 30 percent)? That Americans spent $24.4 billion on DVDs and DVD rentals in 2006, while spending only $9.4 billion going to movie theatres? When you consider some of the latest releases put out by Hollywood, though, you can't really blame folks for not wanting to leave the couch.
Matthew Continetti
Birth of a Nation of Couch Potatoes
This Time magazine package on "One Day in America" features less interesting statistics than you may expect. One factoid in the piece is that Washington, D.C., has the second-worst traffic in America (the first is L.A.). No surprise there. However, did you know that "the average U.S. household has…
Matthew Continetti · November 21, 2007
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