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Children should be taught how to watch reality TV so they can understand that the "reality" it presents can be manipulated, Germaine Greer has said.

Professor Greer told Edinburgh TV Festival her experience on Celebrity Big Brother taught her that all TV footage "can be slanted".

Which just goes to show you can be a professor, regarded as part of the intelligentsia invited onto Late Review to spraff away with Tom Paulin, and still be as dumb as a post.

Sixty-six years old, many years spent appearing on television before she understands the concept of editing. I don't think it's the kids who need to learn how to watch TV Professor brainiac.