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June 6, 2016

NY Times On Pro Wrestling Gaining Acceptance


The New York Times Magazine recently posted an article looking at pro wrestling gaining acceptance with mainstream media. They noted that people don't criticize wrestling for being "fake" as much today because "the rest of the world has caught up to wrestling's ethos." They also wrote:

With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed "reality" in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience's addiction to the melodrama. The modern media landscape is littered with "reality" shows that audiences happily accept aren't actually real; that, in essence, is wrestling. ("WWE Raw" leads to "The Real World," which leads to "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," and so forth.) The way BeyoncĂ© teased at marital problems in "Lemonade" — writing lyrics people were happy to interpret as literal accusations of her famous husband's unfaithfulness — is wrestling. The question of whether Steve Harvey meant to announce the wrong Miss Universe winner is wrestling. Did Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj authentically snap at each other at last year's MTV Video Music Awards? The surrounding confusion was straight out of a wrestling playbook.

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