One of the biggest things that stuck out to me in this chapter was the idea that the media is "dumbign down" their information to make it easy to understand for undeducated consumers. Some might beleive that by doing this, they are ruining the public sphere. However, I agree with McKee when he said that by dumbing down the informaion, we are also making it acessable to so many more people. Why should it be that the only educated people are allowed to be a part of the public sphere? Shouldn't we live in a society that wants to involve everyone, no matter of their academic standing?
When McKee started talking about reality television, I found myself agreeing completely with what he was saying. I beleive that while most of reality television is merely for entertainment, you can also look at it as learning experiences. McKee also points out that some people would say that reality television is vulgar...but he quickly responds to that by saying that it is not necessarily vulgar, but it is just a different culture than the one that some people might be used to. Some people might look at the reality show Real World, as vulgar because the participants in it spend months doing nothing but partying and fighting with each other. However, growing up in the generation that I, and the participants of this show did, I know that this is actually how many people my age live their life. So does that mean most of the young people today are vulgar? Hum...I guess some would say we are. :)
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