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In 1980, if you wanted to watch a movie, you had three choices: go to the theater, wait for it to air on one of four broadcast networks, or hunt down a Betamax tape. In 2006, “popular media” meant whatever was on American Idol the night before—a shared hangover conversation at water coolers nationwide.