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JasonA1:

--- Quote ---And I see nothing wrong with him - in a labeled column, designed to be comment, saying he doesn't like something even though his site covers it.
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Well, to use your italic technique here: it wouldn't be a problem, if Steve wasn't the only person working on the site. Because he's the only guy with say on what goes into the site, he can easily remove all reality show coverage if he feels that badly about it.

-Jason

clemon79:
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jul 30 2003, 06:54 AM\'] And I see nothing wrong with him - in a labeled column, designed to be comment, saying he doesn't like something even though his site covers it. [/quote]
But the coverage of Reality World isn't the point....the point is that he lambested NBC for \"only\" having two minutes on Bob Hope in the can and ready to fire, and then TURNS AROUND AND DOES THE SAME THING on the front page of his site.

If Beverly wants to wax poetic about Hope in his \"opinion\" piece, that's certainly his option. But to trumpet it across the face of his game-show site, and then launch into his so-sensationalistic-it-makes-Extra-look-like-MacNeil/Lehrer \"gameucrappery\" garbage (How in the BLUE HELL is Last Comic Standing any more of a game show than Star Search is?) is purely hypocritical, as Robair said. If he wants to gripe that \"that's what TV has come to\", that's fine, but that shouldn't stop him from (in fact, it should ENCOURAGE HIM TO, isn't taking the high road part of those good happy Christian beliefs he can't seem to keep to himself?) holding journalism to a higher standard.

Of course, The Perfesser wouldn't know a high standard of journalism if it kicked him in the {BLANK}.

TheInquisitiveOne:
I have to go with Robiar and Chris Lemon on this one. Slamming NBC (and rightfully so; NBC has devolved into \"bottom of the barrel\" television) for their tawdry memorial of Bob Hope for some more crap TV is one thing. To do the exact same thing on your website makes you no better than NBC.


--- Quote ---How in the BLUE HELL is Last Comic Standing any more of a game show than Star Search is?
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I agree with this statement. This is the one thing that can turn me off from visiting SB's website regularly. I am familiar with the \"citizens' right to know\" principle, but seriously...there are some of us here who can tell what is a game show and what is NOT. Having a woman and her two friends (all of whom have personalities as deep as a puddle) find a man in a relationship that has a 80% probability of failure...all of this produced by Simon the Coward...is NOT a game show. Encouraging the stereotype that \"women get married for the money\" by trumpeting it on television is NOT a game show. Having your parents TELL you whom to date is NOT a game show.

You have the idea...it is garbage. Complete and absolute garbage.

I will not slam anyone here who watches this type of stuff or considers them game shows. It is entirely in the eyes of the viewer. What steams me is that the networks are using every negative aspect of human nature in order to turn profit, and that is just ugly.

I apologize for the length of this post, but I had to express my intense hatred (not dislike, hatred) for this so-called \"reality\" television.

The Inquisitive One

(By the way, I am only 21 years old, but I have tons of respect for Bob Hope's work and charity. He shall be greatly missed.)

Brandon Brooks:
Devil's Advocate:
Not everyone is as atute as you are.  I know many people who know I'm a game show freak ask me, \"What do you think of those reality shows?  Do you like Survivor?\"... like reality shows and game shows are related.  I'll say \"they aren't game shows, but I like some.\"  Response: \"They aren't?\"

That being said, Beverly caters to an audience, one that is not limited to us geeks.  I'm inclined to think that a lot of his viewers think that these reality shows are game shows.  And you don't really know how many emails he gets/has gotten about him wanting to feature these shows on his site.  He could just be delivering what's asked of him.

... Or not.

Brandon Brooks

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