“Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.”
E.B. White, “Television” (The New Yorker, Dec. 4, 1948)
Archives for February 18, 2009
TT: Snapshot
A 1961 Ernie Kovacs commercial for Dutch Masters cigars:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)