Word: massing
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With more viewers drifting to cable and going online, the formerly mass networks are losing money and cultural clout. Next fall NBC will give Jay Leno five hours of prime time a week because he's cheaper than producing Medium. Programmers and cultural critics are warning of the end of the mass-media era, when shows from I Love Lucy to Seinfeld joined tens of millions of Americans in a common experience...
...truly mass experiences - Olympics, elections, the Super Bowl - still play out on TV, even if "TV" now includes computers and phones. As for the loss of being able to make small talk with the mailman over who shot J.R. - I'll trade it for Mad Men and the ability to skip ads with TiVo. We'll find something else to talk about. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...taxpayers, we fund the health care of our elected officials. Maybe it is time to strip the coverage of those officials who kowtow to lobbies and show no interest in mending this situation. David Walker, DARTMOUTH, MASS...
Catherine M. DesRoches, of the Institute for Health Policy at Mass. General, said that when the Bush Administration first announced its goal to digitize medical records by 2014, there was no “baseline data” on current levels of digitized records...
...been working on these issues for decades, but it's only recently that we've seen organic food at grocery stores all over the country. What do you think pushed the local/organic issue from a niche thing into a mass movement...