Can Americans Distinguish Between Fantasy and Reality?

Reality shows are everywhere but are they real? Are these contrived and staged situations really connected to reality? It would seem that they are floating free from all reality like objects the astronauts accidentally released from their space craft. They are more like microcosmic little episodes of something like Looney Tunes with Bugs and Elmer replaced by the hip, the young and the cool.

In the sixties the former head of the Federal Communications Commission was nearly tarred and feathered for saying that TV was little more than a