University Wire, May 17th, 2005
University Wire 05-17-2005 (The Columbia Chronicle) (U-WIRE) CHICAGO -- In the early days, laugh tracks and designed sets offered a representation -- but not the truth -- of what life was like in America. It was art, and to some degree, it was good art, insofar as it helped Americans measure and reflect on their own lives. But then, years later, the blurring began. Grainy, muddled, unclear pictures of truth and reality started to accompany our prime time diets, complete with handheld video cameras. The glossy veneer of "Leave it to Beaver" was gone. Fiction was no longer fiction. Reality TV wa...
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