But that defies morning-television logic: NBC couldn't afford to lose both anchors in the same year.
Blum questions the logic of television sets being coated in chemicals that are either known health hazards or under-researched.
Péron and Icher explain, "Beside these fat cats, Maraval is exasperated by the central and ossifying role played by television," with its "implacable logic of standardization".
For the major networks, the essential logic of television programming is to build a blockbuster and keep it running no matter the cost.
Then again, logic and television ratings have never necessarily gone hand in hand.
At first glance, the vogue for casting real people in nondocumentary movies would seem to be an extension of the Warholian logic of reality television, in which ordinary people, thrust into highly artificial situations, display their true selves in the hope of claiming the celebrity that is everyone's birthright.
Adorno's cultural studies show that a similar logic prevails in television, film, and the recording industries.
Mario Fernando Hurtado, a geographer, said he had come to agree with Mr. Castano's logic after watching him on television.
"The strategic logic of UTV Ireland in creating leading television operations throughout Ireland remains clear".
"Only on the day that the Americans lose hope in all sorts of plots, military war and economic war, will we be able to hold talks based on logic," another candidate, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, said on state television.
Despite the existence of good television, fine writing on the Internet, and video games that test logic, the electronic media by and large invite inert reception.
