No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. … - Tom Shales

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Tom Shales

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

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