The coronavirus pandemic has forced many television interviews to take place via Zoom or Skype videoconferencing from the homes of both the interviewer and the interviewee instead of in a broadcast studio. This offers viewers a small glimpse into the home decor of all those involved.
As a book lover, the one thing that caught my attention are the many bookshelves that appear in the background, filled with rows of books. If the physical book is on its way out, you wouldn't know it judging by the screen images shown each night. For example, Judy Woodruff, the anchor of the PBS News Hour, sits each night with her bookcases behind her and Rafael PiRoman, one of the co-hosts of the evening news program, Metrofocus on New York's WLIW, Channel 21, has a massive wall of books that towers behind him. (And I thought I had books.)
True, these bookshelves are in the homes of journalists, politicians, professors, scientists, and others considered as members of the elite. But still it sends a clear message to the rest of America and the world that the printed word in book form continues to have value.
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