Lincoln, Douglas and Netflix
5 min read . Updated: 01 Jan 2023, 10:00 PM IST 
Premium- Social media may make us dumber, but streaming has the opposite effect.
I just finished streaming the latest season of “The White Lotus." And “House of the Dragon," “The Peripheral," “The Crown," “Andor," “The Rings of Power" and too many more. What a change from May 1961, when Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, called television a “vast wasteland." Or 1992, when Bruce Springsteen sang “57 Channels (and Nothin’ On)."