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Article: Starr system.(mass media frenzy over President Bill Clinton's sexual misdeeds)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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Steeped in celebrity and semiotics, book packages and product placement, has been a thoroughly post-modern coup d'etat. The investigation preceded the crime. The one who pulled the trigger was not a crazed loner but a star-struck groupie. The conspiracy was hidden in plain sight. The dog was wagged out.
The Contract with America had become a contract on Bill Clinton. A cabal of right-wing plutocrats, well-connected literary hustlers, and political opportunists funded, sold, and promoted a scenario that - whatever objections newsreaders might have had - was far too entertaining for any of them to ignore. Were these so-called liberals in the media compulsively ...