Who could even have imagined the immediate and pervasive power of the internet back in the 70's when the only mass medium was television, and the only roles for Black people were either based on or touched by minstrel stereotypes (remember Jimmy Walker's Kid-a-Dy-no-mite?).
Why is television called a medium? A. It is neither rare nor well-done.
For another, he said, "the most important medium in our culture and society is television".
And there's nothing wrong with stage plays, but that's not writing to the strengths of a visual storytelling medium, be it television or movies.
The medium is of course broadcast television, which remains a powerful way to peddle products despite the recent inroads made by alternative ways to watch programs, which include the Internet, digital video recorders, cellphones, DVD players and video on demand.
Keval Desai, a partner at Interwest, recently wrote a guest post for AllThingsD on the future of the Internet, citing Gojee's relationship with food enthusiasts as an example of how the medium is becoming more like television.
The way he sees it, the medium is about taking chances: "In television, you always want to look for the next big thing".
While broadcast television as a medium is in decline because new platforms — the Internet, mobile devices — are fragmenting audiences, the problems at CBS News are more acute.
One notable difference between Bobby and Andi and Lowell and Jules, given the medium, is that Bobby and Andi watch television and Lowell, who is a transcendentally meditating Buddhist who owns a natural food restaurant ("Nut cheese for everyone," he declares there, by way of celebration) and plays the guitar, does not.
But if the media did change the nation's mind, the medium that did it was television, whose editors' main skill, then as now, was in selecting pictures, preferably violent ones.
