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22. What If TV Isn't Bad for Us?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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What's the Difference Between Cable and TV?

Emily and rob took all the responses collected over the three years of the survey and matched it up with data on cable t v access. Emily's study relied on changes in cable access within the same city or village overtime. And when cable became available, suddenly there was a lot more to watch. There were some entertaining shows before cable, but most of the programming was either government sponsored news or informational shows. But the new cable channels introduced game shows and so paupers that people just loved. It's important to mention that emily's study, which was published in two thousand nine in the quarterly journal of economics, didn't compare places that had cable t v to places that didn't.

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