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Because What Politics Really Needs is to be More Like Reality TV |
2007-04-25 |
Peter Suderman, "The Corner," National Review From Forbes: In an election season when many Americans already feel like voting a few presidential candidates off the island, MySpace and reality show guru Mark Burnett want to cater to that impulse: The News Corp.-owned social network and the man behind Survivor are creating Independent, a political reality show they hope will run on both the Web and broadcast TV. Isn't this kind of redundant? Politics is already more or less a reality show, with a whole bunch of hyperconfident contenders publicly vying for a top prize and the public slowly voting most of them out. Of course, if someone wanted to pluck out whatever civility and substance is left in American politics, this is probably the best way to go about it. No doubt we can expect that eventually, when the appeal of the show in its initial form runs dry, we'll see a Fear Factor edition in which the candidates have to eat bugs or otherwise cavort with |
Posted by:Mike |
#1 Um, isn't the donation of a million dollars to a political cause or person against the law? I do believe there's a law on the books that prevents this sort of thing from happening. |
Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-04-25 19:25 |