Those of you who were with me for my project runway blog will remember that before anyone starts to get their panties in a bunch I tell them to read "for the record" (listed on the right under the links list, and below.)This list includes a few of my occasional forays into theories of popular culture and communication theory (although I never called them this because I didn't want to scare anyone) or research I think is relevant.
The point of all this is to make sure no one takes it too seriously. It's all in good fun.
Comments on the people on the show are not about the actual people in real life: all media personalities, including the judges, are fictional inventions in some way. This includes the various the personas people present on their blogs and myspace sites (ahem. see below re moi).
It's not really reality. It's just a tv show. The cast and situations are manipulated for the purposes of entertainment and -- mainly -- for selling us stuff.
In return, we manipulate -- or interpret -- or reinvent -- the cast and situations for our own amusement, speaking from the point of view of our own various invented personas.
In fact, I'm actually a wire fox terrier.
1 comment:
This is a great reminder. It's so annoying to see people commenting (on other blogs; my readers are all wonderful) about how we shouldn't judge anyone on the show because we don't know them in real life and we weren't there so we don't know exactly what happened and blah, blah, blah. Get over it! We're watching a frickin' television show!
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