Hamid gave the reasons, that today's televisions work better and have more elaborate and complex plots and this attracts the public's attention more intensely, as compared to the past time/early time.
Hamid has stated/mentioned the points why this has happened :-
It is so because, Hamid mentioned it in his this article, "Are the New ‘Golden Age’s TV Shows the New Novels?" . Therefore, by saying this he meant that in the past/early days people use to read more than listening to the television, whereas nowadays the roles have been reversed as television has attracted more and more viewers, where the books/novels have lost the readers.
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