• Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday, October 24, 2011 2:18 PM

Time to say goodbye to another newspaper TV critic. This time, it’s the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jonathan Storm, who is retiring after 22 years in the job.

In this, his farewell column, Storm goes through a long list of the best entertainment shows during his tenure (with a little connect-the-dots among Fox’s long-forgotten “Down the Shore,” MTV’s “Jersey Shore” and AMC’s “Breaking Bad”).

But we’ll just pull something he wrote back during the 1991 Gulf War and now repeats here: "Given our technical capabilities, network competition, and the public appetite for drama, it seems likely that instant news will continue to replace accurate journalism on television. And viewers who really want to know what is going on . . . as opposed to being entertained or emotionally manipulated, may start to learn simply to go on with their lives and wait for the newspaper."  OK, no way he could have foreseen the Internet.

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