Remember Kid Nation? When it premiered, we couldn't decide what horrified us more: the idea of children abandoned in the desert to fend for themselves, or the fact that those children seemed to have imbibed, with mother's milk, the conventions of reality television--each and every one displayed an instinctive grasp of the showboating, solipsism, and self-mythologizing that reality television requires of its "stars."
Now we see there's another demographic vulnerable to reality TV's effects: Politicians.
Take the case of theoretically disgraced (yet...
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