He believes that newspapers are easy to replace because their format is adaptable to the screen but reading longer passages of texts with images are not.

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He noted particularly progress in television: in addition to the Houston newscast, he pointed to a concept, tentatively dubbed "Eye Candy, " that would replace the traditional morning-show format with more of a video variety show.

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