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Bad knight Sir Peter Bonfield, CEO of British Telecom, has been nominated as Internet Villian for asserting an intellectual property claim over hyperlinks. The opposite of integrity Nice piece by Neal Gabler in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. The mouthful title is Who Wants to Be a President? Election 2000: The Miniseries. Why the real winner of the Gore-Bush "campaign" may be the media. The gist: With cable and the Internet, there is now more politics to watch than ever before, but Americans know it is for show, not substance — a tale told by a whole crew of idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Like Maureen Dowd, voters recognize the absurdity of the process and feel bemused by it, which doesn't mean that they will stop watching it so long as it remains entertaining. So if Gore lost, well, that is just the way it goes in the political show. No big whup. Context: Neal Gabler is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment and the author of Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality and other books.
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