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The Difference Between 'Reality TV' and Reality

By JONATHAN RAUCH

The press kit for War Games, a TBS Superstation special, arrived not in anything as bland or conventional as an envelope, but in a canvas military-dispatch pouch, the sort of thing you might pick up for your kids at an army-surplus store. This was useful, since I was able to insert the War Games video into the pouch, sling the pouch over my shoulder,...

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