I don't have a TV, just a projector for movies. I almost never buy newspapers, but when I have one in my hands (merely when the airline gives me one for free) I get bored very quickly. I don't have a single radio at home. But I realized I do watch a lot of TV programmes via video podcast on my iPod Touch. I read most of the headlines of dozens of newspapers in my RSS reader. And I listen to radio podcasts every day. I really consume media, but in a different way.
I'm 37, an old guy by all Internet standards, and I grew up with the "old media" and came to the internet only when I was 25, in 1995. So I wonder how the 20 years olds, for whom internet is just part of life as much as electricity or cell phones are, are dealing with physical media. For sure they don't even know the price of a newspaper or a magazine. But for sure they consume a lot of it. What a shift in just 10 years! And how wrong most of media executives were (and some still are).
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