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Mz Pip

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Wed Apr-30-08 11:49 PM
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5. Ratings!

People seem to love to watch this kind of crap. So much of reality TV is devoted to humiliating or embarrassing another person in some way.

It sells. It may be a media manufactured outrage but they wouldn't do it if people didn't suck it up.

It appeals to our lowest common denominator. Mob mentality. Piling on. Whatever it is, it shows we really haven't come very far in 10,000 years if this merits more attention than Iraq, Katrina, or the outsourcing of jobs.

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