The Real Reality Show
If I have the time during the TV's prime time, I would watch all kinds of reality shows. But to me, the real reality shows are on CNN. I know, it's Cable News Network. Do they run any reality shows? Look.
Last Friday, a defendant accused of rape took a gun from a sole deputy who escorted him to his trial. Then he rushed to the court, shot the judge, the court reporter and another deputy. He was then on a run... This was the time when CNN picked up the news and started what I called "a Real Reality Show".
They ran a live coverage around the clock about what was happening from all angles possible interviewing bystanders, victims, victim's families and friends, legal experts... The war in Iraq, the terrorist threat in America, the tsunami aftermath, the economic situatuion, the weather... everything else was put on a halt. Only the commercials were on as intervals to keep the show accompnay.
The "show" had everything that grabs my attention and involves my emotions. It kept me ponder and feel about the personalities of deviants, the suspension, the pains felt for the victims... It didn't interrupt my life. I went on doing what needed to be done. When I came back, there would be breaking news. If I didn't catch that, they will have a run-down from time to time. And watching the run-downs is not boring because new details kept emerging.
26 hours later, Brian Nicolas was captured after killing 4 people and keeping a woman hostage over night. People won. What a relief for our global village! You kind of knew this was going to happen. But all the twists and turns were real time. There is no scripts like for the movies. There is not even plot or set up for the other reality shows. I can hardly pinpoint the location of Altlanta, Georgia. But the power of television took me there. It helped to foster my sense of uncertainty about today's world and somehow numb my emotions about real pain and fear. It's a whole new domain of experience that we have to encounter...
I respect producers and anchors of the network for their devoted journalism. Ideology asides, they are runing the real reality shows as they are covering everywhere under the sun about anything worth the show.
Last Friday, a defendant accused of rape took a gun from a sole deputy who escorted him to his trial. Then he rushed to the court, shot the judge, the court reporter and another deputy. He was then on a run... This was the time when CNN picked up the news and started what I called "a Real Reality Show".
They ran a live coverage around the clock about what was happening from all angles possible interviewing bystanders, victims, victim's families and friends, legal experts... The war in Iraq, the terrorist threat in America, the tsunami aftermath, the economic situatuion, the weather... everything else was put on a halt. Only the commercials were on as intervals to keep the show accompnay.
The "show" had everything that grabs my attention and involves my emotions. It kept me ponder and feel about the personalities of deviants, the suspension, the pains felt for the victims... It didn't interrupt my life. I went on doing what needed to be done. When I came back, there would be breaking news. If I didn't catch that, they will have a run-down from time to time. And watching the run-downs is not boring because new details kept emerging.
26 hours later, Brian Nicolas was captured after killing 4 people and keeping a woman hostage over night. People won. What a relief for our global village! You kind of knew this was going to happen. But all the twists and turns were real time. There is no scripts like for the movies. There is not even plot or set up for the other reality shows. I can hardly pinpoint the location of Altlanta, Georgia. But the power of television took me there. It helped to foster my sense of uncertainty about today's world and somehow numb my emotions about real pain and fear. It's a whole new domain of experience that we have to encounter...
I respect producers and anchors of the network for their devoted journalism. Ideology asides, they are runing the real reality shows as they are covering everywhere under the sun about anything worth the show.
posted by minimum at
7:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hey.. Min,
Yer right as usual. .the power of the media . .is so great.. and we absolutely cannot do without it.
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Ms One Boobie , at 1:37 AM
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