St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Pop culture expert discusses switch to digital TV

Release Date: January 25, 2009 This content is archived.

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An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the nation's switch to digital television and the thousands of local residents who are not prepared for the conversion quotes Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies. "These are people who are disenfranchised already. This is an information age. And people who don't know how to get access to information are in bad shape," she said.

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