"Is Everything Wrestling?"

> With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed “reality” in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience’s addiction to the melodrama.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr...