The Importance of Rationality in Television

"I don't think he would argue that entertainment and amusement is bad in the widest context of is this good or bad for humanity. I think he's just arguing that it's gotten to a point where TV is maybe gotten a bit too much reached a bit tooMuch power, a bit toomuch amusement," says David Frum. "We've become so accustomed to its discontinuities that we are no longer struck dumb as any sane person would be by newscaster who has just reported that a nuclear war is inevitable"

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