We are 69 and 78 years old. We do not place a higher value on having our computer up and running and connecting with our friends and family via e-mail…While it is very nice to have use of a process to communicate with same, we place a higher value on our television. We like to watch the news, PBS, sports, History channel and antique roadshow is our favorite. What we would really really miss would be our newspapers. We take the Post-Dispatch and the Belleville News Democrat, the U.S. A Today, the Carlyle Union Banner and the Highland leader newspapers. We will also read any other newspapers that we can. If man doesn’t READ, man’s brains will change and not in a progressive way. So, the thing we enjoy most, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch with or coffee in the morning and over the day, reading almost every page including some of the classified ads. When we travel, we buy the local newspapers and U.S.,A. today every morning.
We live in Carlye and wish that they would re-cycle newspapers but they don’t want to. Where can you take newspaper to be recycled around Carlyle?
Harrry and Josephine

I have given up TV, except a few sports, until after the election. The news, is no longer news , It is “opinions and obfuscations”..

A choice between TV, and an internet connection? INTERNET CONNECTION!!!!!!!!!!!

I can follow any sport just as well on the Internet, and by radio, as I can on TV.

Plus, I can discuss such things as photovoltiac solar panels with others who have made their own Or I can discuss the use of pesticides with others who use them.

My point is, that any media that cannot provide INSTANT COMMUNICATION beteween two people, ARE doomed…

Locally, The PD, has a real problem in my opinion,. In my opinion tthe upper management thinks NEWS is travelling by PONY EXPR ESS..

I have already given up my TV. I was never a TV watcher even as a child.
I love emailing relatives out of town. I can read the Post Dispatch online.
I love YouTube–playing country music from my upbringing in Nashville, TN.
While listening to music I play games.
When I moved to my current condo, I found I would “have” to have cable, satellite, etc.
and I said…that’s it, I don’t watch TV so I got rid of my old one.
It’s also interesting looking up new articles. I have a friend with MS…I can look up
and learn about her disease and understand what she is going through.
Thank God for the computer!

I am 80+, and would NEVER willingly give up my internet! I watch sports on tv, and maybe occasional news or weather. Never really saw any affects to the writers strike! I spend several hours a day on the net, and yes, if I want to talk to a friend, I IM them, or email if they aren’t on. I don’t like using the telephone. And yes…I read several papers each day. They are all online. Won’t stay in a hotel without internet!

In the banner at the top of the screen , what would you readers put in to exempliy lthe PD?????

(Note: to girls ..If you think Kurts picture should roll by every secibd because he is “cute” that is fine.

Well, I’m going to have to live without it before too much longer. I’ll be retiring. Believe it or not, I don’t have a home computer. But is being online addictive? You better betcha. I’m already contemplating getting set up for being online at home after I retire. Because I’ll be on a limited budget, I’m contemplating how to swing the money around so I can cut out other frivolities in order to continue my addiction. There is just so much you can do online that you can’t do with any other device. My only concern is that if I have internet capability at home, I’ll be glued to the damned thing and won’t get diddly squat done.

It’s not like I’m glued to the TV either. Right now I’m down to the news (mainly for the weather) and a few PBS programs. So what do I do on on evenings and weekends? By the time I finish the chores and walk the dog and play with her for awhile, it’s just about bedtime. I would love to have time to sit down with a good book but that just doesn’t seem to be happening these days. When I hear about people who are glued to either the internet or the TV set when they’re home (assuming they work full time besides) I think, “So what do they do? Stay up all night?” They’d have to do without sleep. That’s the only way I can figure anyone would have time to humor their addiction. God! I can’t wait to retire!!!

Over the past several years, I’ve found that the internet allows me to to easily access research information for my work. Otherwise, I’d have to take up residency in the local library. So I would not want to have to go to work without it. On a personal level, I’m able to maintain relationships with previous classmates whom I would likely not have contact with otherwise. Since all members of my immediate family are computer savy, I’m able to keep in touch with them as well. I have a 70+ yr. old aunt, a BVM sister retired in Dubuque, Iowa, who even uses email to maintain family contact.
Am I addicted? No. Just as I’m not addicted to TV. If anything, I’m addicted to the gym, where if I don’t go daily, I feel like I’m letting myself deteriorate.

Oh my gosh! I guess I am, once again, the contrarian. I could definitely not be without the TV. Let the internet connection go down, but sound the alarm if the satellite dish is not working! I get frustrated when I am someplace that only has “plain ol’ “cable or other limited channel selections.

With the DVR, it’s hard to say there is never a program to watch. And there is quality out there, not just junk. Anyone catch the beginning of John Adams mini-series on HBO last night? It’s History! It’s Patriotic! It’s TV! (Wait, not it’s not TV, it’s HBO)

Could I live without it?…Yes, If you call that living.

Mr. Barker trivializes the internet and insults serious users.

The internet is a globally rapid, diverse, and economical resource for commerce and industry, communication, government, defense, research and innumerable other serious applications.

For some it may be a toy; for others it is a tool.