Guess We're Not Their Target Demo?

Thank you, Los Angeles Times, for making me feel quite inadequate today.

From Thursday's Home section, the lead article begins:

The living room rarely lives up to its name. Unless one resides in a studio apartment, it is a room not so much for day-to-day living as it is a backdrop, the place we gather to take pre-prom and holiday greeting card snapshots.

Usurped as an activity center by the den, the family, recreation and rumpus rooms, the ubiquitous great room (the kitchen-dining-TV and baby-watching space) and, of course, the 21st century home theater, the living room had become something of a dead zone.

Unless one resides in a studio apartment?! There are more than a few of us who don't live in McMansions, and get by just fine with a living room that doubles as a TV room, a family room, a den and a "baby-watching space."