Damn how low can you go/Why reality TV sucks ass

[ls317]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0327062extreme1.html

Not content with humdrum stories of poverty, heartache, and distress, the producers of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have compiled a creepy wish list of woe for the next season of the hit ABC television series, The Smoking Gun has learned.

[Swamp Rat]

1. Whose reality? what reality?

Americans are going off the deep end and many can't even dog paddle! :silly:

[bluestateguy]

2. I don't watch that show

But at least they are helping a few people, shameless as they may be about it. It's more worthwhile than a show like "Daddy's spoiled little girl" on the WE channel.

[ET Awful]

3. While I agree with you in principal, I have to question the authenticity

of that memo (although Smoking Gun is usually right-on).

Why would a show produced by ABC have it's Executive Producer use a hotmail address for return correspondence?

Seems fishy to me.

[Nailzberg]

4. I don't find that creepy.

Finding stories about rare illness or drunk driving tragedies generates huge awareness. If I saw a thing on 20/20 about a rare illness, I'd probably go to the casting department and say, "We really should try to do a story about this disease", or if my brother was killed by a drunk driver, I'd want to go do a episode for another family in that situation, to put the problem in front of 20 million viewers.