The Fragmented TV Nation

Seventy years ago today, the first unplanned television event was broadcast -- it was a fire in Camden, New Jersey. On day one of Turn Off Your TV Week, we'll look at the impact of some of the good and BAD programming we were raised on. Our guest is Profesor Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

We'll also hear what's real and not real about how Hollywood portrays Washington, DC, in a piece by producer Richard Paul. The story comes to us from PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.