ion news -- infotainment.  Soon came "reality" television, which reversed the process of the Simpson chase. If infotainment started with real events and turned them into de facto soap operas, reality television started with soap operas and spiced them up by adding "real" elements (consisting mostly of people being serially kicked off the shows).
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It goes without saying that movie mayhem and reality television have no moral likeness to September 11. However, the news media's longstanding symbiosis wi