Although he liked to point out to visitors that he got all of the channels—over thirty-five of them—Kapinsky had never really thought about Channel 1 until the night when his cat, Eyesore, jumped up on the cable box on top of the TV set and changed the channel..
Kapinsky reached for the remote-control and was about to change the channel back to where it had been, when a picture abruptly appeared. A man who was apparently a talk show host sat behind a desk. "Do you want to know the truth?" the man asked, smiling humorlessly...