Isn't it strange that Rachel Maddow does not own a TV?

Rachel Maddow was Jon Stewart's guest for the January 7, 2009 episode of The Daily Show. She mentioned she did not own a television and she claimed this helped her show be fresh and different from everything else on television.

There might be some logic to this notion, but a TV personality not owning a television seems rather odd when you think about it. Wouldn't it be strange to find out Bruce Springsteen does not own a CD player or Philip Roth does not own a book?

Not that it is a requirement for a TV personality to own the very device that receives the thing he or she produces, but it seems odd nonetheless. Maddow seemed almost boastful telling Jon Stewart this. Perhaps because television has always been a maligned medium that such a fact is not supposed to raise eyebrows but it should.

Maybe there is a connection between Maddow's annoying holier-than-thou level of snark and this rejection of the TV machine.