Alors qu'on pensait que la télévision serait de plus en plus boudée à cause de l'émergence d'Internet et des multiples plate-formes de divertissement (jeux vidéo, iPod, etc.) les chiffres semblent plutôt indiquer le contraire. Un nouveau sondage de Nielsen Media Research montre que les Américains n'ont jamais autant regardé la télévision…
Et vlan! pour ceux qui croyait le tube cathodique désuet.
"A lot of people thought that as we entered the 21st century, there was only so much TV that people could watch. And others have said that because of new media, the TV era was somehow over. But TV viewership numbers are going up, and just because there's a revolutionary new challenge from things like YouTube and such, it doesn't mean the fusty old medium of a television set is disappearing. It's not going anywhere,"