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The Great Entertainment - by kyla scanlon

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Can you govern the world like a reality TV show?

Good morning! This piece is an attempt at synthesis of all the news we’ve gotten over the past few weeks - a combination of media logic and market structure and geopolitical trust and lessons from history. 0:00 -24:11 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In 1954, actor Ronald Reagan became the host of General Electric Theater on CBS, an anthology drama series mixed with America’s first reality TV experiment - the Reagan family living as stars in GE's first home of ‘total electric living.’ As Tim Raphael wrote in 2009’s The Body Electric, this was the beginning…

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