I have found that I ended up watching a lot more varied and interesting stuff when I can search as opposed to just watching whats on. Wow. The seeds of mainstr

I have found that I ended up watching a lot more varied and interesting stuff when I can search as opposed to just watching whats on. Wow. The seeds of mainstream TV's destruction right there. I think this is a fundamental part of the newspaper's demise that is missed, by papers and many others. For me and probably many others, it's not that the papers/news online is cheaper or free, it's that there's at once more variety and more depth. It's the reason why I'm commenting on an HN post instead of a Denver Post article. A single paper or corp, or a single station or network, cannot compete with a universe of shiny. When WWI ended, Boeing kept their airplane builders employed for awhile by building furniture (airplanes were made largely of wood back then, so they were highly skilled wood-workers). I wonder how newspaper and TV infrastructure could be re-purposed, for something more permanent than the mere end of a war?