Or Who Wouldn’t Watch This?
There is an interesting human
fascination with watching bad things happen, and smugly enjoying the
disaster. Then comes the need to deny
that it was enjoyable, or you were even tempted to watch. How else to you explain the huge ratings all
these disaster, reality or all the fake judge shows have?
There was a show; “Destroyed in
Second’s” that played, and replayed videos of disasters like the rocket
equipped C-130H called “Credible Sport” or a fire at a rocket fuel plant. Then there are shows like “Big Brother,” or “Wipeout”
were we tune in to watch people suffer emotional or physical trauma for the
sake of ratings.
Perhaps that is really what
draws so many pundits to the media. A
desire to be famous while participating in the destruction of candidates, and
if that gets too tame, the destruction of a political system.
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