Where I live, broadcast TV has just become a waste of time. If you don't have a car, there's no time/need to listen to a radio. As for billboards and other "i

Where I live, broadcast TV has just become a waste of time. If you don't have a car, there's no time/need to listen to a radio. As for billboards and other "in your face" advertising, i'd love to see it disappear, but there is one important factor that differentiates it from explicit tv, youtube, and radio ads: there isn't an explicit opportunity cost between their presence and the activity you're usually partaking in. So if you have you're attention elsewhere, they won't capture it and stop you partaking in the activity you're actually doing. Indeed, my mind has gotten so good at unconsciously filtering out those ads, I can't honestly say I see them. But then, I'm the kind of guy who will walk past a new store I'm not interested in for 6 months before someone else has to inform me it exists. Now, i'm not naive, I know that there's bloggers and newspaper articles and product placement (and all the more reason to stop reading the ones that deliberately do it), but its like junk food. Ok, maybe you can't get it down to zero. But you sure as hell can try to cut it back to a minimum, and its good to do so...