Our broadcasters have succeeded in conditioning a people once accustomed to seeing a play or a film without interruption, to tolerate the fragmentizing of movies by as many as 20 or 40 commercials. We can hardly hear a weather report or news bulletin save through the courtesy of a sponsor; we are caught between the hard sell and the soft sell, in everything from deodorants and cushy-cushy products, to rationalizations for price-gouging and double-dipping.

“C&C” from the book “Holes in a Stained Glass Window” (1978)