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Hurl

Hotwife
19-06-2008, 23:39
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5197674

Maybe you thought reality TV hit the lowest of the low when "Fear Factor" contestants devoured cockroaches, or when gold diggers paraded their wares in hopes of marrying a millionaire, or when Tila Tequila got a second shot at "love" with 10 guys and 10 girls.

Those shows look like "Masterpiece Theater" compared to what's coming.

Take, for instance, "Hurl," an eating-and-regurgitating competition in which contestants gorge themselves on everything from chicken pot pies to peanut butter sandwiches, then get strapped into spinning contraptions -- whoever vomits last wins.

A contest too low even for the typical NSG forumite...

Has TV really reached rock bottom? Did it ever hold any real promise?

Tom Wolfe ponders that TV has never brought us the news, either...

CHARLIE ROSE: You are at the stage in your fourth decade where people want you to give one last great lecture. I know you do them too. So if you were giving one last lecture about journalism.

TOM WOLFE: About journalism.

CHARLIE ROSE: Not just about finance but about journalism, what would you say because you`ve seen so much of it?

TOM WOLFE: I think what I would say is today as newspapers are declining rapidly, they`re losing money. I would just point out that all news today comes from the newspapers. All of it. Television has never initiated a successful story in its life. When they have a big story it`s always wrong. They had something about Israelis and atomic bombs. Absolutely wrong. They have George Bush being criticized in some letter -- The so- called Dan Rather ...

CHARLIE ROSE: About George Bush`s... How he got into the National Guard.

TOM WOLFE: Right. Idiots. They should have looked at the piece of paper. Obviously not written by a typewriter.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Tom+Wolfe&hl=en&sitesearch=#q=Tom%20Wolfe%20and%20Charlie%20Rose&hl=en&sitesearch=&so=1
Psychotic Mongooses
19-06-2008, 23:39
That's Fox, right? Oye...
Conserative Morality
19-06-2008, 23:46
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5197674



A contest too low even for the typical NSG forumite...

Has TV really reached rock bottom? Did it ever hold any real promise?

Tom Wolfe ponders that TV has never brought us the news, either...


http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Tom+Wolfe&hl=en&sitesearch=#q=Tom%20Wolfe%20and%20Charlie%20Rose&hl=en&sitesearch=&so=1

Nah, TV never held any real promise for anything serious. Or meaningful. Nevertheless, it's still entertaining. *Watches X-Play*
Londim
19-06-2008, 23:48
I wouldn't be able to watch this nor would I want too. Seeing people vomit makes me ill.
Lunatic Goofballs
19-06-2008, 23:52
This show will have to be hosted by a man named Ralph. *nod*
Call to power
20-06-2008, 00:01
hurrah for TV I guess (is your link really a news source?)

you could just watch whatever BBC puts on as an answer though its not that hard to actually stop reality TV being made

Take, for instance, "Hurl," an eating-and-regurgitating competition in which contestants gorge themselves on everything from chicken pot pies to peanut butter sandwiches, then get strapped into spinning contraptions -- whoever vomits last wins.

this sounds like good fun to actually do (I hope they have lots of food though and I'm really in the mood for chili:))
JuNii
20-06-2008, 02:33
well, they don't call it the 'Idiot Box' for nuthing. :p
South Lizasauria
20-06-2008, 02:51
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5197674



A contest too low even for the typical NSG forumite...

Has TV really reached rock bottom? Did it ever hold any real promise?

Tom Wolfe ponders that TV has never brought us the news, either...


http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Tom+Wolfe&hl=en&sitesearch=#q=Tom%20Wolfe%20and%20Charlie%20Rose&hl=en&sitesearch=&so=1

Hey if you think thats low wait till you hear about a Japanese games how I heard about that once had a contest where every contestant would stuff themselves like in the contest described above only they'd sit on a giant toilet for hours and even days afterward and the one to grab the charmin last wins.
JuNii
20-06-2008, 02:56
Hey if you think thats low wait till you hear about a Japanese games how I heard about that once had a contest where every contestant would stuff themselves like in the contest described above only they'd sit on a giant toilet for hours and even days afterward and the one to grab the charmin last wins.

never seen that one. I remember one where the contestants drank several six packs... the last to run to the loo won.
CthulhuFhtagn
20-06-2008, 02:58
never seen that one.

Probably because it was an episode of Robot Chicken.
JuNii
20-06-2008, 03:05
Probably because it was an episode of Robot Chicken.
ahh...

wait...

nope, must've missed that episode...
Peepelonia
20-06-2008, 10:46
This show will have to be hosted by a man named Ralph. *nod*

Bwhahahaha, oshit now I have muffin all over my monitor!
Hydesland
20-06-2008, 14:14
Sounds like a pretty decent show to me.
Rambhutan
20-06-2008, 14:49
That is up there with Littlest Groom in terms of "wtf were they thinking".
Markiria
20-06-2008, 15:10
Whats wrong with Flavor of Love....now thats TV

FLAVOR FLAAAAAAV
Intangelon
20-06-2008, 15:14
To the OP -- you buried a spectacular indictment of TV news -- by Tom Wolfe, no less -- under a story about a barf-centered reality show.

Shame on you.
Hotwife
20-06-2008, 15:24
To the OP -- you buried a spectacular indictment of TV news -- by Tom Wolfe, no less -- under a story about a barf-centered reality show.

Shame on you.

Well, I think that Tom's comment was relevant. Maybe I disagree, in the sense that TV news has brought us some good things in the distant past, but now the network news (and I'm not saying "just Fox") is the news equivalent of the "Hurl" show.

Case in point - today they won't shut up about Jamie Lynn Spears. I could give a crap about a teenage girl who couldn't figure out how to use birth control. It's just not news. And not only is it not news, it's the equivalent of vomit on the air.

Fox may have taken us in that direction, but most network news has rabidly followed suit.

And I won't mention the torrent of reality shows that are basically crap.

I think that Tom never said anything before this interview because he's so disgusted with it all.

It's not even an issue whether or not network news throws softball question to the people they like, or refuses to vet sources because their eager for a story they believe will sell copy, but the real issue is that "the news" on TV is just NOT the news...
Tsrill
20-06-2008, 15:29
Ah, then you have never seen the German news on ARD or ZDF. It's so boringly presented, it must be real :D
Mirkai
20-06-2008, 15:30
Has TV really reached rock bottom? Did it ever hold any real promise?

Tom Wolfe ponders that TV has never brought us the news, either...



No. Reality T.V. has. In fact, Reality T.V. stepped right out of the womb and into the hole that leads to rock bottom.

Watch good television, like Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters or How It's Made. Or Corner Gas and Trailer Park Boys. Or The Daily Show and Colbert Report. The latter had Cookie Monster on last night and it was hilarious beyond belief.
Hotwife
20-06-2008, 15:32
Ah, then you have never seen the German news on ARD or ZDF. It's so boringly presented, it must be real :D

The commercials in Germany are the best part of TV there...
Gun Manufacturers
20-06-2008, 16:14
That's Fox, right? Oye...

G4, actually. Which makes me think this might be a Japanese game show.