It’s a personal crusade of mine to keep the term in that particular sense. I always remember a Goon Show episode in which Peter Sellars put on his best old Major voice and said something like, “Curse that new-fangled wireless. It means the end for the gramophone, and the little doggy looking into it.”
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Iain Murray is vice president for strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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