Traffic outside Television Centre in White City, west London, ground to a halt as hundreds of campaigners demonstrated against Mr Griffin's presence on the Question Time panel.
Others have increased traffic through television and print advertising, shopping Web sites, social-media marketing and promotional events that appear to be attracting the kinds of trophy hunters who trawl for bargains at stores like Nordstrom or Wal-Mart.
With a click of the button on their iPhones people can now take over public squares, block traffic, attract television cameras, stare down the police, and shout out high sounding slogans ad nauseam.
During the twenty-minute frenzy titled "The Grid" — crowds swirling, traffic churning, televisions flickering, hot dogs and Hostess Twinkies being exgurgitated from production lines — Glass and his musicians become manic machines, firing off notes like so many 0s and 1s.
And too many prominent groups whose mission statement says something about how they work to "combat modern-day slavery" or "fight human trafficking" release television commercials that only and always tie back to the overly primitive.
Plan ahead to find the best location without noise from children, traffic, lawnmowers, televisions or phones.
Pacific Broadband, a privately held start-up based in San Jose, Calif., makes equipment for Internet traffic on cable television networks.
In fact, because television traffic is so heavy, most radio astronomers do not even try to observe in television bands (around 12 gigahertz).
"We don't need no stinkin' Canyon of Heroes, do we?" boomed a voice from the stage, which, appropriately enough, belonged to Joe Nolan, a television traffic reporter.
In 2010, the stretch between Chapman and Katella avenues in the City of Orange was renamed the Paul Johnson Freeway for longtime local radio television traffic reporter Paul Johnson, who died the same year.
