If you've not seen this year's Survivor series, take a look at contestant Courtney Yates, an emaciated waitress from NYC:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3861186&page=1
She is so thin, many wonder if she will live through the trials of having little food for so long, trying to survive in the Chinese jungle for weeks in hopes of winning a money prize. Was this really ethical to cast someone like this in a contest where food and hunger were such central issues, using money as the lure and doing so for other's entertainment and network ratings? Do you feel a little icky watching this kind of "entertainment" which capitalizes on other's suffering, purposeful degradation and hardship, cut throat competition and all for greed? Are most reality series that pit a collection of humans against one another under extreme conditions, and that evoke what ultimately becomes lieing and betrayal of thrust between players, truly the kind of TV we should be generating as a thoughtful society?
2007-11-15
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John S.
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