Stan Freberg (look him up) pretty much predicted the idiocy of our networks in the early 60s.
From Wiki:
“On his radio show, an extended sketch parallelled the Cold War brinkmanship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union by portraying an ever-escalating public relations battle between the El Sodom and the Rancho Gomorrah, two casinos in the city of Los Voraces (Spanish for “The Greedy Ones”—a thinly disguised Las Vegas). The sketch ends with the ultimate tourist attraction, the Hydrogen Bomb, which turns Los Voraces into a vast, barren wasteland.”
I have the LP with this on it, and it is hilarious. When I heard it it sounded a bit far fetched, but I never imagined the idiocy displayed on the current “reality” POS shots.