1. TV or radio?
Tv. I don’t have the patience for a medium that makes use of the mute button impractical.
2. On the radio: talk or music station?
Music, until something I don’t like comes on, then I switch off and put a CD on instead.
3. Actual books or books-on-tape (or e-books)?
Actual books (need you ask?), but I enjoy audio books, too. I can’t just sit and listen to an audion book, though, I have to do something as well – so they’re good for when I’m painting or on the train and that sort of thing.
4. Actual newspaper, or web version?
Web version. It’s free. While I still subscribed to a paper version I hardly ever got around to reading it anyway. The only thing the paper versionis better for is the tv guide and flea market ads.
5. Wall Street Journal or National Enquirer?
There you go being US specific again…
6. TV news…news channel such as CNN, or your local broadcast news?
Local broadcast (as in NRK, the national channel). Local news broadcasts in Norway don’t just do local news, though (whereas in the US I got the feeling even CNN spent most of their time on local news).
7. A movie you’ve been looking forward to seeing gets bad reviews all around. See it anyway, or pass?
See it anyway. I frequently disagree with the critics. It does depend on the sort of movie and who the reviewer is, though.
8. See movies when they first come out, or wait a few weeks for the lines at the theater to get shorter?
I go when I get around to it. So if I happen to get around to it on the day it opens, so be it. If I think “No, it’ll be too crowded, I’ll go later”, by the time I get around to it again, it will almost certainly have been taken off.
9. TV: cable, satellite dish, or just plain old antenna?
Digital cable. Love my digital cable. That’s only because it’s the only way to get BBC Prime, of course.
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: If you had to choose only one form of media to come into your home, which would you choose…print (newspapers, magazines) or electronic (TV, internet)? Why?
If books don’t count as media, then electronic. If books count… well, you know the answer.