'Things' Ain't What They Used To Be

The public works for free. That is the founding principal of modern broadcasting culture [3]. It phones radio stations with its air-filling thoughts on this and that. It monopolises Saturday nights on primetime in singing and dancing and plate-spinning.

The public works for free. That is the founding principal of modern broadcasting culture [3]. It phones radio stations with its air-filling thoughts on this and that. It monopolises Saturday nights on primetime in singing and dancing and plate-spinning. Until recently, it would sit in a house for weeks on end while we (in decreasing numbers) watched [4]. But the public as museum curators? That’s a new one.