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Captivating Television

I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland. -- Newton Minow, excerpt from speech delivered May 9, 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC.

Apparently, news having traveled slowly to Yugoslavia, in 1966, Hedviga Golik, in her small flat in Zagreb, decided to take Mr. Minow up on his invitation, prepared herself some tea, and sat down in front of her television set.

Forty-two years later, she was found, eyes still glued to that black-and-white set -- vast wasteland, my ass.