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Wow. Ok, I know that people are getting tired of the whole McCain v. Obama thing, and I know that as far as television quality goes, we're not left with much, but with "Friends'" off the air, "2 and a Half Men" in reruns, "LOST"...well nobody ever knows what the fuck is up with "LOST", and the Olympics almost over...
I'd STILL rather burn my eyes out with hot lead pokers while listening to Kidz Bop does: The Best of Clay Aiken than watch this...this...well, this...
(WARNING: Entirely Intended Pun Ahead)
shit.
(Warned You.)
I mean, I can't decide whats worse, that we have gotten to such a point in society that we need to have our sports "idols" (I'm willing to go as far as to call Charles Barkley that) undergo televised colonoscopies(sp?) to tell us that cancer is bad? I mean couldn't we be just as successful, and as tasteless, and just have Carrot Top and Andy Dick doing some kind of informative musical number?
Woah. I digressed for a second there. Back to my "what's worst" point.
So again, what's worse? The fact that we as a society need to see that to glean anything about the negatives of cancer, or that this story beat out two other major stories that should have been reported for "Top News" according to MSN.com?
What two stories you ask? Well, maybe I'm being an A-Typical ethnocentric Cleveland-er, but did anybody forget that Stephanie Tubbs-Jones had a brain aneurysm today? And not just that, but that she was then nationally reported dead INCORRECTLY? If I hadn't been watching Channel 5 news, which mind you was the only local station covering it because channels 3 and 8 had to finish their all to important broadcasts of The Young and The Stupid and Judge "Useless", respectively, I would never have known that she was still physically, but not mentally, alive and in critical condition at Huron Hospital. According to both CNN.com and MSN.com, however, she had died. Channel 5, our LOCAL affiliate apologized for their misinformation, but MSN just removed the story from their top news, without apology and went on to tell us an even more important story about Charles Barkley's anus.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am not against promoting cancer research and prevention, I have both lost and had my family members affected by cancer, so its an issue that I understand the direness of. And when I originally saw an ad for the multi-cast event "Stand Up To Cancer" at the movie theater the other day, I was moved enough to be interested in watching it. What confuses me is where the producers get off thinking that we as Americans want to see something like that done to ANYBODY, let alone Charles Barkley.
I mean, I've seen some STUPID Reality-TV, but if they're that desperate for ideas, I'm sure I could come up with something better.
The BBC's Newsround website, recently polled the british people, asking them what they felt made a good Reality TV Series. The answers, which came from a poll of about 20 people...ages 8 to 15 >_< ...basically said they liked washed up celebrities, back-stabbing, poo-jokes, violence, and large prizes.
So lets see..
Celebs: Amy Winehouse, Urkel, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Kathy Griffin, Brooke Shields, Emilio Estevez and (just for good measure) Charles Barkley
Location: Your local state penitentiary, lifer-division
Game Show: I'm a "Celebrity"...And I Deserve This.
Plot: The Celebs are put into cells with other real prisoners. They are then given a week to befriend their new cell"mates" and then after 1 week a brawl is intentionally started in the cafeteria...the celebrity who escapes, or avoids being shanked the most, wins five-hundred grand for their chosen charity.
See? That was easy, and it combines everything we apparently want in our TV.
Violence
Humor
Danger
Celebs
Back-Stabbing
Big Prizes
Charities and Research being supported
and, the most important of them all...
The potential opportunity to see something shoved up Charles Barkley's ass.
Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
And I'm done.
