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:: Sunday, August 17, 2003 ::

Context, subtext, excess
Poor Little Rich Girls, Throbbing to Shop

"Educators say that the popularity of the "Gossip Girl" series is linked to the success of television shows that celebrate high-end consumerism. 'The girls who are reading `Gossip Girl' are staying up and watching `Sex and the City,'' said Angelina Benedetti, the head of the young adult division of the King County Library System outside Seattle. 'They know about Blahniks and Dolce & Gabbana. These images wouldn't resonate if the kids didn't already have the context'."

And mass consumerism doesn't bother me?? I dunno... thats always bothered me (the fact that it doesn't bother me that is). And then she nails it for me, how could it, it already resonates.

The sale of one hand clapping.

:: Jim Nichols 8/17/2003 11:48:00 PM [+] ::
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