As far as George Washington, Burns said, Hes got lots of problems, right?
Burns and Kerger both expressed conviction that people will continue to want to have a shared TV experience.
The exigencies of television right now are changing.
Ken BurnsThe Paley Center for Media/ Brad Dececco
One emergent force leaves Burns far less optimistic, however: social media.
People talk about social media.
… Have you ever been in a room with teen-agers and theyre all on their phone?
Theyre not even talking to each other or maybe they are, but through the texts.
Theres something diabolically insidious about that sort of thing.
You could see where people were coming into the streams and some of them were moving back into broadcast.
They were catching up with their friends.
