reading the new yorkers summup about beyonce's supposed fakery of the national anthem. the assertion is that she mocked an authentic moment and pointed to the fakery of the whole thing.  it goes further to talk about the nature of "reality" as we call it these days.  Is the notion of truth and reality under fire?

the article does talk about the artifice of the internet, about reality television, and how it puts real people in faked situations to elicit real emotions, from themselves and the audience.  as a person who works in reality tv, I've thought about this a lot.  its caused me a lot of shame to make entertainment out of processing real lives.  why should I take part in the devaluing of "real"ness.  What is realness?