Wow, this chapter seemed like a public service announcement meant just for me--telling me to stop wasting my time watching those ridiculous reality shows!!
I love reality shows, i love entertainment, and i love celebrity gossip. I know i am not the only one either. In some ways i think that the media is smart for tailoring the news programs and newspapers because that it was people want to hear about. I know it is becoming ridiculous that britiney's new haircut is on the 6 o'clock news, but the news stations just want to get some ratings. I admit, i never even watched the news or read the newspaper up until about three years ago or so. I was watching the busy watching the real world. Maybe now i tune in because i can learn about what i need to know and what i want to know all in the same place. I agree with mckee that reality tv is an important part of our culture (even if it is trashy, fake, and dumbed-down). I don't think that people who watch it are all uneducated. That is why those shows are called 'guilty pleasures'.
There was one quote that stood out to me : " You can either be a consumer or a citizen, You can't be both" (pg 78). Then i guess we are all consumers because we all buy things, buy into things, and are manipulated by ads in every form of media out there.
And another thing, i did hate how they kept referring to the commercialized pop-culture as the 'working class culture'. Just look at who these reality shows are about-- the rich (the hiltons, the kardashians, the hogans, and the d-o-double gs). If they are not watching other reality shows, you know they are watching their own :) So every class (upper, middle, and lower) is taking part in this commercialization.
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