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Wed Dec-28-05 11:39 AM
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11. This Was Touched On In Excellent Fashion In Amusing Ourselves To Death...

Although the specific abuse by the media is not addressed, the harmful nature of covering stories because we have the technology that allows it is. The interesting and unpleasant truth is that ratings go up if plane difficulties, missing white girls, car crashes, fires, murders are covered. It says something about us that we are drawn to these things...

Maybe it's because technology makes us think, subconsciously and falsely, that the event is "in our neighborhood."

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