Saturday, June 16, 2007

Real life imitating Art ?

Staying with the New Statesmen,Brian Cathcart writes of the amount of column inches that the press are currently devoting to TV.

Emily Parr,The Apprentice,Any Dream will do,Grease is the word,the Diana documentary and the Sopranos have all filled our papers in recent days.

According to Brian,perhaps this is a case of real life imitating art

"One reason, a crude but powerful one, is the belief
among editors that newspapers can't afford not to write about what their readers
are talking about. So it's a sort of tango with the reader into the realm of
stupidity. Another reason, which the columnists are more likely to advance, is
that this is a proxy for reality. What happens between Emily and Charley or
between Alan and Katie may not be real, but it is an acting-out of events that
do happen in the real world, and so it gives everyone a chance to dissect and
understand those events."

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