We live in a media saturated environment. Family, neighborhood, vocation, religion, and ethnic affiliation have been replaced by media driven identities. The spectacle created by the television daytime talk shows illustrates how media attention changes people.Consider how relatively ordinary people are perceived as more important and possibly more real than they do in their daily lives, after they appear on television for any trivial or far-fetched reason.

THE COPY HAS MORE POWER THAN THE ORIGINAL