The Spectacle of Scandal and the Consumption of Outrage: How Systems Produce and Manage Political Crises as Entertainment
How Satirists Address Scandals as Performances That Sustain Rather Than Challenge Systems
Consuming Scandals: How Outrage Sustains Systems It Appears to OpposeScandals function as spectacle: normalized annual quota of crises, legal sagas treated as ongoing entertainment, royal drama distracting from systemic failure. Outrage gets channeled safely. Satire engaging scandal as entertainment reveals how systems manage political threat through spectacularization.SOURCE