Entertainment is a term that always seems to be used with hint of disdain: entertainment is always just entertainment. There are two implicit contrasts involved here. One rest on an aesthetic judgment: entertainment (fun, of the moment, trivia) is being contracted to art (serious, transcendent, profound). The other rests on a political judgment: entertainment (insignificant, escapist) is being contracted with news, with reality, with truth.
Source: Simon Frith (2000)
