TV in public places: the good and the bad

1. Your views are important

 
As TV moves out of the home and into the places we live our lives (stores, restaurants, buses, trains, elevators, hotel lobbies, doctor's waiting rooms, street corners, etc.), it's appropriate to step back and assess what's good and what's bad about this trend.
1. How often do you notice TV in public places (on gas pumps, trains, buses, taxis, and subways, and in office lobbies, doctor's waiting rooms, airports, elevators, restaurants, coin laundries, etc.)?
2. In general, when I'm in a place with out-of-home TV (restaurant, office or hotel lobby, grocery store, etc.), I find the noise and flashing images of the screen . . .
3. When you're in a place with TV outside the home, which of the following is typical of your thoughts?
4. Assume you're standing in the checkout line at a grocery store. How would you rather learn about specials?
5. Which of the following seems most true to you of people at an airport gate, waiting for a flight?
6. When I'm in a doctor's waiting room, I would rather have . . .
7. When it comes to the consumption of media (TV, magazines, newspapers), which is better?
8. Assume you're in a waiting area at a doctor's office or in an airport gate with a TV playing, and you want to read or just think. Which of the following is true?
9. Now assume you're in the same waiting area, but instead of a TV playing there are print ads hanging on the walls. Which of the following is true?
10. This last question relates to some past U.S Supreme Court decisions. Which of the following seem to violate our rights to liberty and privacy? Click on all the letters that seem to be violations.

A. Piping in radio commercials and programming on a publicly subsidized train
B. Hanging print ads on a publicly subsidized train
C. Handing out commercial leaflets on a public sidewalk
D. Broadcasting radio commercials from a moving truck
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