Media journalist Ken Auletta writes that television has been undergoing an “earthquake in slow motion.” In a brief essay, explain what Auletta means by that, what initially caused the “earthquake,” and what keeps it going today.
What will be an ideal response?
Auletta is talking about the gradual loss of network television viewers in the late 1980s and early 1990s to cable, satellite, and home video and how the networks largely ignored it as it happened. The earthquake is starting up again now with new digital alternatives to broadcast television.
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