http://empowered-teacher.com/blog/feedDevotion to the Time Being
The Kaiser Family Foundation's recent survey of teen media use found that:
Today, 8-18 year-olds devote [emphasis mine] an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week).
I am struck by the KFF's use of the word "devote" here - it seems out of place. "Devotion" implies (to me) a reverence for the time of one's life and the use of it for higher purposes. More likely, I reckon KFF's survey kids "found themselves spending time with" media - they did not "devote themselves" to it.