Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Final Words on LeBachelor

Good Rolling Stone article. Wassup with Rolling Stone? Bringing it back...

It's the prototype for all future news coverage — one or two dominant news networks pushing sensational fairy-tale versions of reality in a race for ad revenue, competing with a few scattered hacks on the Internet covering the much less important parallel "real story," i.e. the truth. In order for the networks to push their version most effectively, they have to genuinely believe that what they're spinning is real. Which is why you see them starting to mistake fake drama for real drama from time to time — they're beginning to drown in their own bullshit.


Oh boy. At least this future will give me something to write about.

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