Tech tunes into TV at CES | CNET News.com

Watch is going to be the watchword of 2006 as television content spews out as digital files. Want to watch Kojak on your phonecam? Here it comes. It is noteworthy to remember George Gerbner, a media researcher extraordinaire who charted our culture through television since the 1960s. He talked about the "mean streets" effect that occurs because violence is presented on television so much more frequently in news and entertainment than it occurs in real life, so that frequent viewers come to think the world is very dangerous. He bemoaned the fact that as humans we have given over all of our storytelling and mythmaking to television and let it replace church, family and other person to person ways of learning what the world is. Tech tunes into TV at CES | CNET News.com