On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 21:46, Matthew Healey wrote:

> rational well-thought-out television 

I'm a little puzzled. Did we ever have rational, well thought out
television in the first place? I realise there are degrees of bad (I
recently got rid of my TV, having found that TV had passed the point
where I had any interest in watching it even occasionally), but was it
ever actually genuinely rational and well thought out?

Craig Ringer