This morning’s Day (I couldn’t find the article on-line), on page A-3 (not the Entertainment section), contains a short AP article reporting the latest developments in American Idol. The doings on the TV show are reported as straight news. We are informed that a contestant that one of the judge’s didn’t like has been voted off the show. What’s next? Perhaps we’ll be getting page three accounts of the latest developments in popular soap operas.
This is not quite the same as reporting fantasy as reality, but it comes awfully close. Is this a reflection of the way people think, or is the media creating a mode of thinking that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Perhaps the tendencies reinforce one another. We live in strange times indeed.
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