September 18, 2004
"If you have a DVR, you can start recording the Emmys tonight at 8 p.m. but not start watching until 9, which will give you enough time to zip past the commercials without catching up to the show "live" before it ends. How do you spend that hour between 8 and 9? How about watching this morning's "Meet the Press" or last week's "Without a Trace"? I know, I know. Sedition from a former chairman of the TV academy, but this is reality, folks."
FROM: href="http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-blur38sep19,1,7486428.story?coll=la-home-magazine">The End of Television as We Know It in the Los Angeles Times.
MORE: "That giant sucking sound you hear is not just jobs going to Canada. It's the shattered pieces of the old system going down the drain."