Unscripted Apocalypse: The Twenty Worst Reality Shows of Summer
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| Gawker found this 6/20/2008 on nymag.com [flag] |
Courtesy of ABC, NBC, G4, TLC
The three-month writers' strike of 2007–2008 may have cost the American economy $2.5 billion, and Lost fans two hours of inscrutable entertainment, but that's nothing compared to the fallout still on the way. Next week, we'll see the first wave of awful reality-TV shows green-lit when network scribes were still picketing. Competitive vomiting! Baby ...
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Where Did All The News Go? [Big Ideas]
Published 6/20/2008 by Michael Weiss at Gawker
... today’s Internet; Web 2.0 has descended into bathos, which really ought to have its own 'sphere named after it. Facebook’s great advertising revenue model went bust a year ago and everyone’s already stalked everyone else on MySpace. Most user-generated content reads like a stale algorithm of pettiness, paranoia and semi-literacy. Time formerly proclaimed “us” the “Person of the Year,” and it proved too burdensome a responsibility. We renounce the title. • The television season is over. What is there to watch now except the Real World ...
