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How the Media and Entertainment Work Within Society
I think that many of these prizes, many of these events are highly political with a small peak, okay? Because it is incredibly difficult to have one of those and then turn around and say the whole economic system which this TV show is based on is wrong. Changing that message is actually a little trickier and more nuanced than it might seem. There is, again, we do need systemic change. We need changes in how the economics is wrong. We need systemic change about how people live their lives. And those radical changes are being discussed, but it's very difficult when you're putting on a show. The same people watching the Light Entertainment section are not going to be the same people that
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