Entertainment had gone from our ancestors sitting round a fire, he said in article for tech web site T3, to cinemas where you enjoyed a film in silence, to the TV set, which allowed shared viewing and lively conversation.

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Once an article is on a Web site, it costs the publisher nothing to have it read.

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Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war.

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