I watch TV shows, but on my own terms and (spoiler-heavy shows like GoT excepted) on my own schedule. In any given week I watch an average of 3 hours of quality episodic television, with occasional marathons of old shows I’m catching up on or missed. I’m sure that amount is way down from the time I spent watching episodic TV shows a decade ago.
I love my podcasts and also my domestic and foreign public radio news (my primary source of breaking stories and daily news recaps). YouTube is for fun and putting video to audio when it comes to the news; it can become an engagement clickhole for me sometimes so I’m very mindful about how I use it. This recent TED Talk by James Bridle on the dangers of YouTube (presented, natch in a YT video) reminds us that small children are about as apt to use YouTube safely as they are to use a firearm safely:
