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Originally Posted by Kipi  I will reply to otehr comments later, the words are currently jumping to my eyes making it hard to read and especially understand what I read. It ain't good to be awake over 24 hours without sleeping...   |
Oh, go to sleep! You shouldn't be up at this point, much less reading the deliberately insidious comments of CE and myself!
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In case of ABBA, is that your personal opinion or is there some larger support in that?
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It is my own opinion, and I was enjoying myself, thank you very much.
But you can supply your own very-popular-but-horrible analogy, I'm sure. Still--there are objective criteria by which the arts can be measured, and examples found severely wanting. Yet many examples of entertainment are both wretched, and highly popular. Is it the high journalistic quality of its standards that make Fox News so popular, do you think?
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And about Reality tv...
Well, I'm not fan of those examples you threw in, but there are many Reality tv shows I actually enjoy watching, and I know many who also do so.
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But we're not discussing what one enjoys, but what is a favorite among a huge number of people: does that guarantee it can't be terrible? No; it only guarantees that many people enjoy it. Popularity and quality are not linked.