>Well then, if Americans don't mind that their audiences are manipulated to behave like little children, then they also shouldn't mind being perceived as childish people.
Come on, that's should not be "Americans", but "some Americans". I suppose many Americans find such shows childish, too.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
