He edited Hearst's New York Mirror at a time when it claimed to be ten per cent news and ninety per cent entertainment.
The visitors enjoyed just 39 per cent of the official Uefa possession count in a game that included, by a rough calculation, about three per cent entertainment.
To give you an idea: a $15 per month "entertainment" add-on will bring A&E, AMC, Comedy Central, Discovery, Food Network, TBS, TNT and USA.
Another $7.99 per month "Entertainment" add-on will offer the live feeds from the live network feeds of LMN (Lifetime Movie Network), FYI, DIY Network, Cooking Channel and CNBC World.
The way television is headed, it's not entirely inconceivable that games like those played in "Saw" might someday have a future as pay-per-view snuff entertainment.
Quite often, everything is so geared to the maximum level of entertainment per minute that what results is quite far from it.
"I don't know that we have any sort of archaeological evidence of entertainment, per se," said Daniel Fessler, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, whose research fields include evolutionary psychology and psychological anthropology.
Those who were invited to contemplate their mortality "said they would spend an average of $813 per month on entertainment, leisure and clothing, whereas those who wrote about music expected to spend an average of $410".
The television screen, once perceived by adults as the gravest threat to the brains of their offspring, has been miniaturized, replicated and made even more addictively distracting: according to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation report, children age 8 to 18 spent 77 minutes more per day with entertainment media than they did 5 years earlier.
Guests tend to have a thirst for knowledge that exceeds their interest in entertainment, per se.
If you read an average of say 60 pages an hour, that equates to about 30 cents of royalties per hour of entertainment.
