In Jolts (1985), now out of print, I speculated on the implications of living in an increasingly high JPM world. … LITTLE IS KNOWN for certain about the physiology of watching television — exactly what the brain does to and…

I WROTE a monthly television column for Saturday Night for seven years. Although it never stopped being hard work — I write slowly even at the best of times — it was fun. I learned an enormous amount, not least…