Television deals with the spatial continuum of the 
planet, and every television station in real time or a 
repeat or a rerun, all the spaces of television are 
contiguous, coextensive—they make one universal 
space which is our global village. It’s villagy to the 
extent that everybody gets in on everybody else’s 
business, everybody else more or less knows 
everybody, may not like everybody, and clearly the 
business of what’s happening anywhere in the 
world is your business, as well as your business 
being there. That’s globally about it, but it’s also 
television. I don’t think enough people today when 
they talk about the global village realize how much 
that metaphor is pertinent to the world of