When I tell people I don’t own a television, I’m often asked “how do you know what’s going on in the world?”. I wonder instead how people who spend their time watching television have any idea what’s going on in the world. I’ve come to realise that when people ask me “how do you know what’s going on in the world?” what they really mean is “how do you know what’s going on in the world of television?”, though in some cases I’m not sure they’re aware of the difference between the two.