Uh, with TiVO, HULU.com, iTunes, podcasts, webcasts and other time and place shifting websites, the concept of needing “a week’s worth of planning in one shot” is not necessary.

I get whatever media I require, text, audio and video, when I require it.

No more “tyranny of the transmitter” telling me that I wasn’t in front of the tube at 8 PM on Wednesday the 4th so I missed whatever it was that the transmitter was spewing forth that day.

The thing to realize about the RCA picture of “Nipper” listening to his “Master’s Voice” was that YOU were being treated like a poor, dumb son-of-a-bitch.

I prefer to get my media online whenever I can deal with it.

I’m with you on the stock tables (outdated in minutes). But the other elements, not so sure. As my students remind me, an awful lot of people (in raw numbers) don’t have fast Internet access or even home access at all. Those box scores and op-ed pages take a long time to load via dial-up. And one of the reasons I subscribe to print newspapers is to have the TV listings as a ready reference without having to go online yet again. The L.A. Times recently dropped its weekly TV guide section, and I’m seriously considering dropping my subscription because that was one of the most important resources it gave me that I couldn’t get online — a week’s worth of planning in one shot, whenever I wanted.