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Each week we invite someone from outside PE to weigh in with their thoughts about CBS News and the media at large. This week, we asked Kansas City Star television critic and TV Barn blogger Aaron Barnhart to offer up some of his ideas. Here, he wonders why the same forces that have made television the best outlet for entertainment haven’t been able to mimic that success with television news. As always, the opinions expressed and factual assertions made in “Outside Voices” are those of the author, not ours, and we seek a wide variety of voices. Here's Aaron:

I am typing these words from inside a refrigerated ballroom in Pasadena, Calif., where I am pretty sure it would be legal to sell eggs. I'm at the semi-annual gathering of the Television Critics Association, where the networks present their new shows to 150 ink-stained but increasingly wired scribes, many of whom are relaying the proceedings in real time to their readers through their blogs, if only because it keeps their fingers warm.

I started at the Kansas City Star 10 years ago, three years after I began writing about television "on the Net," as we called it back then. Before "the Web," before "the blogosphere," before "pajamas media," you published by e-mail, on texty bulletin boards and to something called Usenet that people today mostly stumble over on a Google search.

Something else has changed dramatically on my beat in the last decade.

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