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Reality TV fast becoming a blood sport
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| June 11, 2009
| Ellen Makkai
Posted on 06/14/2009 5:01:33 PM PDT by ellenbrewster
If Reality TV degenerates at its current pace, families will soon tune in to a trendy new show, “You Bet Your Life.” But it won’t be a Groucho Marx game show re-run. Over TV dinners we’ll be watching some poor soul competitively killed--not a digitized cartoon, mind you, but gladiator-style and for real.
We 21st Century sophisticates fancy ourselves more civilized than the Roman hoards who packed arenas and roared their approval with every bloody collapse. But today’s Reality TV revenues disagree. The more perverse the program, the higher the viewership.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Religion; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bloodlust; death; depravity; realitytv
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To: ellenbrewster
This was not only inevitable, it has been the ultimate purpose all along.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:02:35 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: ellenbrewster
This was not only inevitable, it has been the ultimate purpose all along.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:02:35 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: ellenbrewster
Well, we already have our version of Caligula.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:02:37 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: ellenbrewster
Reminds me of “The Running Man” with Richard Dawson and Awnold the govna of Kali for nia
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:03:20 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Life
(Those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it)
To: ellenbrewster
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:04:05 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: ellenbrewster
so much for enlightenment.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:04:29 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(Fraternities are the street gangs of Privileged White Boys.)
To: Conservative4Life
LOL — great minds and all that...
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:04:43 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Conservative4Life
No kidding, I’d forgotten that wretched (great!) movie.
To: Conservative4Life
I heard that one of the contestants on the next Survivor died after one of the competitions. He won’t be the ultimate survivor this time around.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:07:49 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
To: ellenbrewster
I read once that reality TV will eventually descend into two people playing Russian roulette for $1 million. We’re moving ever closer to that reality.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:08:35 PM PDT
by
VA_Gentleman
(The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed...)
To: ellenbrewster
Another one was “Survivng the Game” with iced T
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:11:00 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Life
(Those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it)
To: ellenbrewster
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:18:05 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
To: NCC-1701; agarrett; AJMaXx; A knight without armor; alisasny; Anitius Severinus Boethius; Artist; ..
I run the Survivor ping list and I hadn't heard of that, so I looked it up. That was a contestant on the Bulgarian version of Survivor. Not the American version.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31036263
For the ping list, just so you don't hear any wild rumors.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:22:05 PM PDT
by
JillValentine
(Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
To: JillValentine; ellenbrewster
Reality TV fast becoming a blood sport Well, as they say in England, "Bloody good show, mate!"
To: Conservative4Life
Ya ain’t seen nothin’ ‘til you’ve seen “Hunter’s Blood”....B-Bob Thornton’s first movie.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:39:10 PM PDT
by
gundog
To: ellenbrewster
Reality tv doesn’t interest me. These people know they’re being taped. I’m guessing that the show’s producers/directors are calling for these people to be uninhibited and really cut loose. The more outrageous their attitude and behavior the more sheeple will tune in to watch them. The higher the ratings and the longer they stay on tv. That seems artificial when it’s suppose to be reality.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:39:48 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: ellenbrewster
The rules of the game kept getting worse, despite increases in attention and money, and, at the same time, important information, such as the complete history of the thirteenth century was accidentally getting “lost forever” by “The Supercomputer”-the only thing that had all information on all issues.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:43:34 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: ellenbrewster
How about barak goes out in to the heartland and has to get a real job. Lots of crickets chirping.
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posted on
06/14/2009 5:47:56 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Texan by birth and by choice.)
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