David Friend writes for the Washington Post:
As author Jonathan Schell would write, the Simpson and Clinton dramas proved to be beta tests for what Schell called a “new media machine” that chose to elevate “the trifling (sex and lies about sex) to earthshaking (impeachment of a President and damage to the constitutional system) … [and] may have fatally tipped a newly endangered balance of power: the balance between fantasy and reality.” The June 1994 Bronco chase, Schell believed, was the pivot point: “At that moment, virtual reality and plain old-fashioned reality were inextricably fused in some new way.”
God forbid we don’t pay close attention to meretricious exercises like impeachment! And what about damage to the constitutional system? I presume he means civil rights, which undid our founding constitution and replaced unprecedented government intrusion into our private lives.
