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has become a ghoulishly voyeuristic trip manifested in a diverse
range of examples including the surreal game-show video-clip ele-
ment of some of the US military briefings in the Gulf conflicts and
the outpourings of public emotion at the death of Princess Diana,
for whom (to all but a tiny minority of the mourners) she was just a
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screen image . At present it seems that the most likely impact of the
media’s explosive properties is that its ruins and debris will block
our exit from Plato’s Cave.

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