Article: Why give information if it's not informative? Only way you're going to crack strange TV-listing code is by watching the show.(NEWS)

Even in the Information Age, not all Information is, well, informative. From Carolyn:

- I was reading the TV section to see if a show was a repeat or not, and it just said "Bobby's House" or something like that. I don't know what this means at all. Why do they put these little words in? No one gets them.

I'm guessing "Bobby's House" was the title of the episode. You wouldn't know this unless you read the TV section, which is the only place on Earth these titles ever appear. In the old days, when 68 percent of all TV was brought to you by Quinn Martin, the titles actually appeared on the shows themselves. I know, kids, hard to believe, but yea, it was ...

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