COLUMNISTS When one is paid to think about television, one begins to notice a certain commonality between professional and personal conversations on the subject. In my working life as a media reporter, the main theme of conversations about ITV, Channel 4 or Five is that life is ghastly because the business model is doomed; talking to friends about telly, the recurring opinion is that life is ghastly because there is nothing worth watching.
As I say, the FT pays me to think about these things, and, call me radical, but I suspect these two themes are somehow linked.
