Television

Fight the blue glow

by Michelle Chihara

If you didn't have it in you to don a sea-turtle costume and get tear-gassed in DC last weekend, you can try a less aggressive form of activism this week. That's right: rise up from your couches, citizens! Hide your remote, and unplug your cable box! It's TV Turnoff Week, and nonprofit lobbying organization TV Free America (TVFA) and media activists Adbusters both want you to go on an idiot-box fast from April 22 to 29 (or from April 24 to 30, for TVFA). Studies show that watching television makes you fat, lazy, and antisocial (more or less). So get off your butts and go read a book.