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
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