Intelligent Programming Has Become The “Bald Eagle Of Television”

The end of Topic A with Tina Brown “represents yet another blow to something as rare as a sighting of Halley’s Comet, a needle in a haystack or a soft-spoken New York Yankees fan. It is, of course, intelligent programming, which has become the bald eagle of television,” Jon Friedman opines. “Then again, it’s really no mystery the show failed to attract an audience. Brown introduced ideas, of all things, on the boob tube, not simply the prattling of some movie star passing through town.”