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According to Ethics Analyst and Media Commentator Vince Crew |
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October 19th, 2009 |
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Balloon Boy - Now Is The Time to Pull the Plug on Reality TV
According to Ethics Analyst and Media Commentator Vince Crew |
Naples, FL – “As if the media conniptions over Jon and Kate’s divorcing isn’t enough, this week over $2 million was spent by law enforcement chasing a hoax to garner a reality television gig by a family faking the disappearance of their son in a weather balloon,” says Media Commentator and Ethics Analyst, Vince Crew, “could be the proverbial nail in the coffin of what this type of programming is doing to the psyche and motives of adults and children across America.”
Crew, author of Everyday Ethics, Everlasting Consequences (available at www.REACHdevelopment.com), said, “I don’t want to be overdramatic but lets face it, there is a growing percentage within our population that is being convinced fame and fortune rests on being a freak, a fanatic, or a fraud in our society.”
“In this case two parents were convinced it was in their and their children’s best interest to falsify a terrible hoax of child safety rather than abide by the traditional values that lead to a more routine, yet sane, life,” Crew continued.
The only reason this latest genre in so-called entertainment has become a phenomena is:- 1. It’s cheap to produce: generally using very minimal scripting, production costs, and employing low-demanding, low-skilled, low-pay talent (using the term as loosely as possible)
- 2. The lure of easy money and fame is very attractive to the socio-economic, narcissistic, and level of intelligence involved.
- 3. The programming appeals to lowest, broadest, and most prevalent common denominators of shock and anti-social scenarios.
“Shouldn’t the requirements of what is entertainment exceed cheap, easy, and appealing and reflect higher standards of values such as: educating, informing, inspiring, or stimulating higher pursuits or at least providing some escape from the base and crude of society’s worst? Past civilizations have fallen when the people became complacent, government rulers were allowed to rule unchallenged, and unethical conduct became accepted, then expected, then praised as ‘harmless entertainment’ – my fear is America may reach that point before the twenty-first century ends,” according to Crew.
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Vince Crew is a U.S. conference speaker, author, executive adviser, and media commentator on strategic growth through leadership, staffing, and ethics initiatives.
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