I saw the heads up you gave yesterday and watched the episode. Looks like a nice area.
Not wanting to criticize the general public too much, but you wonder why people loyally watch these phony reality shows. We know the contestants are interviewed and screened well ahead of time. It's pretty clear at least a third of the people are chosen simply because they'll make trouble. If you had ten truly qualified candidates for a serious job, who'd watch the Apprentice? The weekly games are absurd, just an excuses for the bad-actors to do their thing. It doesn't matter who wins or loses, because the producers have probably picked the finalists before hand anyway. I suppose it's a form of theater, but one that's pretty clearly abusive of the audience. Even the PBS series 'Such-and-such Era House' is the same way. They pick people to participate largely on the basis they'll have trouble and make gigantic scenes about it then try to pass it off as how most families would react.
Why do people want to watch badly behaved morons so much?
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The Apprentice
Date: 2004-02-20 05:28 am (UTC)Not wanting to criticize the general public too much, but you wonder why people loyally watch these phony reality shows. We know the contestants are interviewed and screened well ahead of time. It's pretty clear at least a third of the people are chosen simply because they'll make trouble. If you had ten truly qualified candidates for a serious job, who'd watch the Apprentice? The weekly games are absurd, just an excuses for the bad-actors to do their thing. It doesn't matter who wins or loses, because the producers have probably picked the finalists before hand anyway. I suppose it's a form of theater, but one that's pretty clearly abusive of the audience. Even the PBS series 'Such-and-such Era House' is the same way. They pick people to participate largely on the basis they'll have trouble and make gigantic scenes about it then try to pass it off as how most families would react.
Why do people want to watch badly behaved morons so much?