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The recent Jackass tragedies will be joke fodder for "smart" comics, the Bill Mahers, Dennis Millers and Jon Stewarts, who make a living mocking news and current events in sarcastic, pseudo-daring, always semitically correct ways. These stories are funny because "everyone knows entertainment is not real." And anyone who doesn't is deserving of a Darwin Award, the honor given to "those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in really stupid ways." |
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The key assumption here is that only morons are influenced by what they see and hear in the media. Intelligent people -- i.e., non-morons -- among whom the audience members wish to count themselves, are "independent thinkers." They use the media, the media doesn't use them. It's a "free market," in which they, the "independently thinking" consumer, call the shots. If they never see a pro-German, anti-Jewish film about WWII, well, that must be because "independently minded" people like them don't care to see such things. After all, Hollywood's all about money, isn't it? They'll offer whatever sells, right? Well, no, actually that isn't right at all.
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