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You make a good point about the level of interaction with the political media - it is still the media. Yet something is inherently more important about it because it isn't just about some imaginary teenagers in a small New England town; ultimately, it has to do with the people who make and enforce the rules that we all live by.
These people (the ones in charge) essentially have the power to take away our basic rights as human beings. And it would obviously be naive to think that even what the term "basic rights" encompasses is something that most folks would agree on. In the end, even the most peripheral people who produce political media have an effect, no matter how small.
In my mind, this idea of politics as reality entertainment would be more fitting in the Mass Media Mind Control thread.
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Last edited by Supple Cow; 04-20-2005 at 04:33 PM..
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