Television: From the Same Tube

All kinds of people used to go fishing who don't have to go any more. Not people in rubber boots who read Field & Stream, but the old bamboo-pole fishermen who half the time forgot to bait their hooks and just sat there for hours and hours staring at the same 21-in. patch of water. As the current moved, the patch was never the same from second to second but always the same in every tomorrow. Now all those fishermen are sitting at home staring into a 21-in. patch of glass.

The old shows have gone downstream this spring in...

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