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His savage, profane descriptions of Nixon, his mockery of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, his characterization of any enemy as a "Nazi" or "the fourth Reich" or "the sixth Reich" enlivened (and, yes, debased) political debate.
In other words, this validation of the media business that AOL is apparently performing is being done with a currency that old-media types always used to slag as "debased" or "overinflated."
Neo-Isolationists oppose interventions abroad because they despise Bill Clinton and believe that American culture is debased.
But others well within pop's debased, commercialized, 50-year-old landscape--Nas, say, or Beck, or Pavement, Radiohead, P.J. Harvey--often are.
Which of the following are actual Tina Brown rationalizations for her magazine's slide into darkness (quoted by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski), and which are amusing digs at a debased editorial philosophy built around fawning over celebrity?