Best of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas? (Archive post)

Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the annual Peanut broadcasts being incrementally excised from annual broadcasts to make room for more and more commercials.  And now, being today and all, all this can be confirmed by any diligent dork who takes the time to line up the store-bought DVD versions against the Hulu streams of the TV broadcasts. This last fact not only boggles the middle-aged mind as to how profoundly the world has changed for media.  It also completely encompasses how and why, just as video killed the radio star, digital entertainment and its consumer-pleasing qualities spell doom for the mainstream media as we knew it.   The once-Red-Baron-like power of Big Media over its customers increasingly looks much more like Snoopy hanging for dear life onto his bullet-riddled…

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