In her review of the TV series Sarah Palin's Alaska, Janet Malcolm, author of Reading Chekhov, makes this general remark about the surreal aspect of TV reality series.
Something always seems a little off in reality television. You don’t believe that what you are seeing happened in the way it is shown to have happened, any more than you think that the man in the Magritte was born with an apple attached to his face.
Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled
relationship with these sea giants
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Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push
for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted
them to...
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