"David" wrote in message
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On 11 Mar 2005 06:36:45 GMT, "David Eduardo"
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"David" wrote in message
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And American Idol is the number one TV show.

Because many people watch it. Duh.


Because it can deliver a demographic. Not because it has any lasting
value.

Most entertainment was not designed for lasting value. Dickens was paid by
the word to pad stories and draw them out to increase circulation, and
Shakespeare was considered "vulgar" by the ruling classes. They both
provided entertainments, and, in retrospect, we found them enduring as well.
Much of the best writing of that period is totally forgotten and irrelevant.
Don't be so hasty to dismiss the simple act of providing enjoyment and
entertainment.