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Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You: One Man, Seven Days, Twelve Televisions

Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 1:39 AMNo Comment

Listy in spots, but Lechner undertook his watch-twelve-TVs-for-a-week experiment the same week Mighty Big TV launched back in 1999, so that’s a nifty time capsule; the writing is not the deftest, but given the parameters, it’s good, and it’s interesting to read a book like that from the perspective of someone who doesn’t ordinarily watch much television. (9/8/03)

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