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If "Balloon Boy" gets a reality show, I'm moving to Canada
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I'll admit it. I was one of the millions of TV viewers watching the drama unfold when a young boy was thought to be floating in a giant balloon last week.
In fact, most people in the newsroom, at least for a little while, were riveted by the "real-life" saga unfolding before our eyes. We stood clustered around the TV's set up around the newsroom, giving to-the-minute updates to our coworkers who were...ahem...actually working (those suck-ups).
I mean, it's not every day you hear of a story like this. It was bizarre, suspenseful, dramatic and then it was...well, it made the majority of us want to take some pitchforks and torches and go way old school on the Heene family.
Seriously? I mean, seriously? They did all that so they could get a reality TV show?
SERIOUSLY?
Dude, come on. If you're going to do something that could potentially put you in the slammer, at least go for broke and do something so that when your inmate buddies ask you what you're in for, you don't have to answer "Well, I was trying to be the next Jon Gosselin."
Frazier Moore of the Associated Press wrote an interesting piece on this whole debacle and about how it has shed light on the fact that TV is full of shams.
"When 6-year-old Falcon Heene threw up twice while being interviewed about his role in last week's balloon ordeal, he summed things up for millions of onlookers. Sickening. ...But somehow inevitable. It's endemic of the more and more seductive urge to dismiss truth, responsibility and other traditional values in favor of hustling for fame on the genre that continues to be labeled, with less and less cause, 'reality TV.'"
I've long been outspoken on the ridiculousness that is reality TV and how I can't believe how long this supposed television trend has lasted.
Here's to hoping the Heene family has inadvertently started the decline of this "genre." Or at least put a dent in its popularity.
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We got punked.
October 25, 2009 at 8:42 a.m.Anyone have a choice for worst reality show ever?
How about the one with the black guy whose has the giant clock on his neck.
October 25, 2009 at 7:05 a.m.If he gets a reality show, it will join the long and growing list of reality shows that I have NEVER and will NEVER watch. There are much more creative, and possibly productive, ways to take points off of ones' IQ. Aprill, that seems infinitely preferable to moving to Canada, unless you have an undying love of snow and frostbite.
October 21, 2009 at 11:14 a.m.Reality TV. When MTV started showing more of that junk than music videos, I quit watching. The last one I did watch with anything resembling consistancy was "The Osbournes".
The "ballon" incedent needs to be resolved with the leveling of some prison time. We already know the guy will "swap" his wife. This stunt is a new low.
Let me know where you find the cheapest tickets to Canada my friend.
October 20, 2009 at 7:59 a.m.Matt and Legion the point being is that both of these people are greatly disturbed utilizing public sentiment either the hate of a colored man or the love of a child to promote either their ideological or personnel agendas. These actions are more then promoting oneself in a synagogue or faculty lounge but contrived to get the nations attention. This technique the last bastion of those who ideas can not stand alone on their own merits is pathetic- attacking the messenger.
October 20, 2009 at 4:45 a.m.Curious indeed, speechfree could have used a self confessed child rapist who has dodged his prison sentence for 30 years, and now has all the support in the world from the Hollywood liberal elite claiming it wasn't rape,let him go that's been to long ago, ect. ect. you know Roman Polanski.
October 19, 2009 at 6:46 p.m.Curious that you would use that story, with no victims, and not the Duke rape case.
October 19, 2009 at 6:08 p.m.Police tell KDKA that a campaign volunteer has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker. Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car. Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.
We quickly forget these kinda stories but there use to be a thing called journalism that included a thing called a fact checker. Check and triple check was the standard but now with the true race to the bottom to be first has sold out to the idol of glitz and notoriety. There is no price for being wrong or outrage for being unethical for just plain sloppy.
October 19, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.I will go to!
October 19, 2009 at 3:07 p.m.