One can hardly overestimate the damage that such juxtapositions do to our sense of the world as a serious place. The damage is especially massive to youthful viewers who depend so much on television for their clues as to how to respond to the world.
Generations raised on the "Now…this" type of disconnected and contextless consumption can't take serious matters seriously because their mediums don't allow for reflection and undermine the serious nature of the event by optimizing flr the presentation of as many novel and amusing things as possible.
