Friday, March 26, 2004

YOUR TOTAL SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN NETWORK: Nothing exceeds like excess, or so NBC seems to figure.

"The plan may kindle a debate about whether television networks are using news programs less for news than for promotion."

NBC's evident whoring aside, this concerns me.

I mean, the formula was sound at lower power levels: Trump's appeal was only intensified by the awkward spectacle of a megalomaniac with megabucks taking his own PR too seriously. But there has to be a point of diminishing returns. Otherwise, the feedback loop may fuel his ego until it becomes so massive and so incredibly dense that ... well, let's not bandy doomsday scenarios about. Surely a just God wouldn't play such rough games with a fragile universe.

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