i remember when luke and laura got married because it was nighttime news worthy. the soap opera discovers the blockbuster mentality, the sweeps month mentality. like what can we do to get even more people watching? you have a wedding. you have a kidnapping. you have an evil twin. and primetime stole from daytime. after dallas proved that ewing oil was better than real oil for cbs, the networks rushed to give the public more. the great primetime open operas of the 1980s, dallas, dynasty, they re all about compels. this is about being over the top, stabbing each other in the back, going for the gusto, and having fun. i know what s wrong with you. the empty-armed madonna. mourning the baby that she couldn t have and the baby that she almost got to adopt. that is it, isn t it? you miserable bitch! there was a bigness to the stories.
in tonight s positive and practical were looking at the monopolization of the big tech companies and one man s call to return to the antitrust enforcement never seen since teddy roosevelt. joining me is tim wu. can you quickly tell us to bits of that, what is the curse of bigness and what is the new gilded age. the curse is simply the situation where you have too few companies controlling to view things in too many in charge of too much media. tech is a competitive part of the economy and it s really gotten controlled by just a few big companies. the new guild today refers to what you re talking about earlier, the idea that there are just a few elites will assume they are in charge of the country and democracy.
in tonight s positive and practical were looking at the monopolization of the big tech companies and one man s call to return to the antitrust enforcement never seen since teddy roosevelt. joining me is tim wu. can you quickly tell us to bits of that, what is the curse of bigness and what is the new gilded age. the curse is simply the situation where you have too few companies controlling to view things in too many in charge of too much media. tech is a competitive part of the economy and it s really gotten controlled by just a few big companies. the new guild today refers to what you re talking about earlier, the idea that there are just a few elites will assume they are in charge of the country and democracy.
at its best, cable television could provide a refreshing relief from the trend toward bigness, toward centralization. at its worst cable tv could invade our privacy, tranquilize our children, remove us electronically from the flesh and blood world. and we d have to pay for the privilege. the question is, indeed, will the miracle be managed? today is the day you re going to get motivated.
hand, shines it up from his chin and says to the people within the sound of his voice, this is your president, and that was a kind of the custodial role, the bigness of the job, in a small venue. johnson also said that nothing opens the soul of a man the way the presidency does. that all the concerns, all the cares of the people become his cares and his concerns. george w. bush really became president on that friday in september, after the attacks, he gives that very formal, remarkable speech in the cathedral and then he flies to ground zero and he s standing on the rubble and is among those first responders, and if you talk to president bush about it, it was very much about wanting to prove to those men and women who were covered in the soot of death, that he was with them.