ENDORSED: Stop Putting TVs In Every Bar.

It’s enough to make you want to whip out your TV-B-Gone. Well, maybe for the airport CNN, anyway.

UPDATE: As proof that nothing is new, see this 1953 article by my old law professor (though he was young when he wrote it) Charles L. Black, Jr.: He Cannot Choose But Hear: The Plight of the Captive Auditor. With a bonus footnote to Fred Pohl & Cyril Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants. And as proof of just how cool Charlie Black was, he wrote this article (and read The Space Merchants in pulp serialization) at pretty much the same time he was writing the brief in Brown v. Board of Education with Thurgood Marshall. Because that’s how Charlie rolled. (Bumped).