As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didnt own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you dont own a TV simply means youre poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.

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