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Is this the latest move to remove control from our lives? Soften us up with reality TV, reduce debate to sound bite and replace substance with media acceptable gloss then, bit by bit, we will surrender our rights.
I would recommend a reading of Neil Postman's book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death", in which he predicted (it was written in 1985) many of the things we are witnessing in society today.
"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainment, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture death is a clear possibility".