Cheap show.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

From: New Internationalist | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Wright, David | Copyright information

John F Schumacher's 'Starstruck' (Essay, NI 363) offered a classic rehearsal of the intellectual Left's inability seriously to grasp and engage with popular culture.

It is surely a mistake in a 'media-saturated' world to confuse visibility with significance. Celebrity culture (and indeed the thriving anti-celebrity culture critical industry) might merely be a self-serving product of a media (and academy) in search of a simple story and a cheap show, rather than evidence ...

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