> When I first read that Baudrillard had reportedly said that reality had
> ceased to exist in the US, that people in the US lived completely inside
> the media, I thought it was the kind of ridiculously exaggerated thing
> French philosophers are apt to say. Making allowances for a bit of
> hyperbole, it now appears that he was right.
I believe someone from the other side confirmed when a media representative was chastised by a Bush II White House staffer for being too ensconced in the "reality-based community."