Entry from July 29, 2010
The day before the Afghanistan War Logs were made public by Wikileaks in The New York Times (along with The Guardian in Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany), the Times’s Sunday Magazine ran an essay by Walter Kirn in the series "The Way We Live Now" titled "The Art of the Deal as Entertainment." In it, Mr Kirn notes that, in certain areas of public exhibition — entertainment, sports, politics — "it’s the business that’s the entertainment and the art of the deal that’s the art that draws most notice. We have become a society that is fixated on process and absorbed by the slippery, complex machinations of the middlemen, brokers and executives who conspire offstage to determine what takes place onstage." He calls this "procedural voyeurism" and cites the saga of Lebron James earlier this month and last year’s contretemps at NBC between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien over hosting duties at "The Tonight Show" as examples, although the interest of ordinary people in a movie’s box office returns as much as the movie or the NFL draft as much as the Super Bowl strike him as comparable.
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