TV Turnoff Week

It's TV turnoff week. Instead of watching TV, go outside and find something to do. I know, I know. Easy for me to say living in a hut.

From Adbusters.com :

Just a reminder that TV Turnoff Week 2007 begins today. If you haven't
yet pulled the plug on you TV, it's definitely not too late. In fact, go
ahead and do it right now -- this newsletter can wait!

The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult – yet also how life-changing – a week spent unplugged can really be.

But there’s a lot more to TV Turnoff Week than shaking up your relationship with passive entertainment. It’s all about saying no to being bombarded with unwelcome and unhealthy commercial messages. It's about saying no to unfettered corporate media concentration and to the democratic deficit that results. And it's about challenging the heavily distorted reflection of the world that we see on the screen, a reflection that is keeping us ill-informed and unaware of the very real political and environmental crises that we all currently face.

This year, we’re returning to the kind of stunt that spawned the Adbusters Media Foundation and our ongoing Media Carta Legal Battle against the corporate gatekeepers that control access to the public airwaves. There are loads of ways you can get involved, whether it’s spreading the word with a poster campaign, posting our spots on your video blog, or making a donation to help us air the uncommercials on broadcast TV.

Or, you can just go ahead and brace yourself for the challenges and joys of seven days spent liberated from the commercial information grid.

Happy Unplugging,
The TV Turnoff Team