24/7 Reality

David Meier writes in Fool.com about News Corp.'s announcement that it is launching a 24/7 all-reality televsion network, "I abhor the whole reality-TV concept." I just don't get it. TV is about entertainment, and reality television is about as entertaining as web-cams. Who gives a shit about a naked Richard and other losers getting "voted off the island"?

This is sick stuff. If reality TV is America, then we're all Neros watching Rome burn around us. It's a sure sign of a bankrupt society. Just that instead of barbarians at the gate, 1,600 years later we've got them on the tube.

 Posted by glenn