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Friday, November 25, 2005

Modern manners, part 561

If you really must degrade and humiliate other people, why record it on a cameraphone? The footage will come back to haunt you, in headlines like '"Abuse video" outrages Malaysia'. While this unwelcome form of 'citizen journalism' is widespread, at least some people still get indignant about ritual humiliation. Imagine if it became so routine that viewers were simply indifferent to it. Prime-time TV could show Carol Thatcher taking a midnight pee and ... oh wait, that's already happened.

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