Re: virus: TV is Good

Eva-Lise Carlstrom (eva-lise@eskimo.com)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:36:02 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Eric Boyd wrote:

> Hey look fellow memesters: Television has finally realized the power of
> *self*propagation*. Using television to sell television.
>
> The most powerful force in the universe, self-replacation, finally used
> by television *programming* giants[1]. Be afraid.

They already did, in that there have always been TV advertisements for
individual TV shows and stations. I don't remember having seen TV ads for
TV itself before, though. I wonder whether there were such things when TV
was a new technology.

Eva