Cloying, sickly-sweet and addictive, it's the crack cocaine of pop culture. But even scarier is how predictable, in retrospect, this media nightmare was. And in the new bottom-line vulgarity that has replaced shame among the American elites, this ends the discussion. No, guys, we have a life. But if you keep on painting over the Grecian urn with your manipulative tricks, your irresponsible journalism and soft-core emotional porn, we won't have one much longer.
Robots make the best consumers.