I have a column in today’s USA Today about the DTV conversion saga. It’s called The Great TV Disaster, and you can read it here.

The gist? Some folks may lose their TV signals — eventually — but the real tragedy is that more of us don’t turn off the tube from time to time. From a public health perspective, our government has zero interest in making sure that no one misses a second of TV. And yet we just sponsored a NASCAR vehicle to spread the message…