Television is terrific at some things. It's the best at taking you there. I mean, we can take you to Bosnia. We can take you to the Moon. We're superb at taking you there.
Television has difficulty with depth.
It has difficulty with context and perspective. The late Eric Severeid once put it this way. The camera is like a flashlight. We can show you what's at the end of the flashlight beam wherever we point it at a given time, but what you don't see is what's at either side, above and below that flashlight beam.