TV TROUBLE: This may seem like an incredibly mundane story, but it's serious stuff to folks who work at newspapers. There's so many cable channels now that most papers have trouble squeezing them into the weekly TV book. I used to occasionally handle the TV book at my last job, and boy, did people call up to complain about the listings. The Journal story reports that 45 percent of Americans still depend on the TV listings in newspapers to decide what to watch, but if you've got cable, you've more than likely got the Preview Channel. I probably watch that channel more than any other.

I predict that the TV book will die out in a few years because of the cost of newsprint. And good riddance.