Ultimate Tv

October, 1991

Ultimate TVOur Parents were right: We watch too much television. Always have. It was the first soft, nonprescription drug we could abuse until we passed out and/or it was time to go to bed. Part of the problem was the sheer proliferation of the medium. Here we had, at our finger tips, tens of thousands of hours of mental popcorn that apparently never gave us a sufficiently horrendous bellyache.But out of this vast wasteland--as it was called by former FCC Commissioner Newton N. Minow--there rema...