A method that ignores our it-looks-like-a-television response will make it seem as if the information age were inevitable, headlong, and unstoppable (which might even be true) but will fail to prove it.
Depending on the requirements for a particular application, characteristics such as power consumption for portable devices, viewing angle for desktop monitors and televisions, contrast ratio, brightness, color gamut, and video response times for LCD televisions, have been optimized.
In 2008, for instance, French satellite provider Eutelsat suspended its Asian broadcasts of New Tang Dynasty Television in response to pressure from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
"I personally would consider it excellent because, into this rather stale provincial environment, this would bring an international spirit," Mr. Havel told Czech television in response to a question that he himself had planted with a reporter covering the ceremony.
Public television's response has been to create a kind of miniseason during each of the year's four pledge drives, featuring shows aimed at generating merchandise sales, bringing in new members and prodding lapsed members to renew.
"I have declared a state of emergency for Jakarta until 27 January," he said on national television, in response to the disaster.
True to form for the mindset of many addicts confronted with the reality of their situation, "you must be out of your damned mind" is Maddie's authentic -- though indubitably sanitized for television -- response when she first learns that she is being mandated to a fate of sober living by Cynthia, a guidance counselor with deep knowledge of what it takes to stop drinking.
Mothers of 11 year old children were asked "During a normal week, how many hours a day (24 hours) does your child watch television?" Possible responses were 'less than 1 hour' '1-3 hours' or '3+ hours'.
In response, television has not only been in overdrive; it has been turned upside down.
In response, television audiences and the blogosphere seemed to produce a collective yawn: too brown, too dowdy, too ho hum, they pronounced as one.
