Comments on: Super Bowl, American Idols & BigMac: “Panen Et Circenses” Of Today http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/02/06/super-bowl-american-idols-bigmac-panen-et-circenses-of-today/ News, Politics, And Opinion From Around The Globe Sun, 13 May 2012 17:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Dufrechou http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/02/06/super-bowl-american-idols-bigmac-panen-et-circenses-of-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3726 Stephen Dufrechou Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:54:29 +0000 http://newsjunkiepost.com/?p=11311#comment-3726 Also, one has to wonder, if sports were not banned--but banned from television--how Americans would use that freed-up time? Indeed, there was a time when there was not television spectacles to watch.... Of course, if Edward Murrow had been listened to, TV would serve the function of educational enlightenment, not of propaganda and social diversion. Also, one has to wonder, if sports were not banned–but banned from television–how Americans would use that freed-up time? Indeed, there was a time when there was not television spectacles to watch…. Of course, if Edward Murrow had been listened to, TV would serve the function of educational enlightenment, not of propaganda and social diversion.

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]]> By: Stephen Dufrechou http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/02/06/super-bowl-american-idols-bigmac-panen-et-circenses-of-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3723 Stephen Dufrechou Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:36:44 +0000 http://newsjunkiepost.com/?p=11311#comment-3723 Sports and sports entertainment in America doubly functions as training in irrational jingoism. You own it for writing this one, Gilbert. Dead-on analogy, here, with the Roman idea of "bread and circus". Sports and sports entertainment in America doubly functions as training in irrational jingoism. You own it for writing this one, Gilbert. Dead-on analogy, here, with the Roman idea of “bread and circus”.

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