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[Tim Strzechowski]

> Certainly in the 1984 described in this novel, as in the real one and the
> real 2003, it suits the government's purposes for reporters to turn their
> attention from substantive stories to entertaining but meaningless crap.
The
> natural order of things is that the bad stories force out the good,
because
> they're cheaper to produce and they don't piss anybody off. This is a
> principle of journalism that anybody who has worked for a small-town
> newspaper, or any newspaper or television news program, will be able to
> recognize.
>

Case in point:

NEW YORK -- "The Osbournes" reality show has lost a member of the family.

Sharon Osbourne tells "Us Weekly" in its July 28 issue that her black
Chihuahua, Lulu, was recently killed by coyotes that jumped a low fence at
her home. "It's so heartbreaking," she says.

read the whole heartbreaking story @
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/entertainment/2337764/detail.html


The proliferation of reality-based programming is responsible for nonsense
like this taking up newsprint space.

Damn Tube . . .