Following Up: Is Television Better Now Than Ever?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 30, 2012

Bob Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television and professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University and author of Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History, follows up the question of whether the quality of television programming is better now than it has ever been, and how we can decide.

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