In the race for ratings, sales, notoriety and profits, movie, television companies, publishing houses, businesses and their advertising companies continue to see how far they can go and what will stimulate their viewers/listeners? They keep testing the public’s taste and patience-what the public will put up with. It makes sense to say that some of what the media offers reflects what some sectors of the public want, but it would be nonsense to suggest that they don’t help to shape the public’s interest in and hunger for the bizarre and outlandish.