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Hold on to your tablet: maybe TV isn’t dying after all

Clip: 7/8/2015 | 6m 30s

TV is dead? Author says there’s something wrong with that picture

Nowadays, there are more and more new media video options carpeting the web. But in his new book, “Television Is The New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age,” Michael Wolff argues that the Internet is not actually destroying old media. William Brangham speaks to the author about why he thinks traditional media can still thrive in the digital age.

07/08/2015 | Rating NR

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