Congressional Sleight of Hand
When you can't control actual violence, make a big show about controlling imaginary violence."Certainly, many families want alternatives to violent TV. And guess what? They have them and, amazingly, can wield a remote well enough to find them. Family-friendly American Idol is the biggest show on TV. Cable, that font of gore, offers more family and documentary shows than ever were available in the three-channel era. But if politicians simply respected the audience's choices, stopped posturing against theoretical violence and fictional bad guys, they would have to focus on, say, the thornier problems of stopping actual bloodshed in the real world.
"There's a term for that in the entertainment business. They call it escapism."
posted by Lachlan @ 1:20 AM
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