Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be.
The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.
Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.