Survivor Brings Back Segregation
The PR ploy has worked because I've never watched an episode of Survivor and here I am taking the time to think about it.
So the daddy of American reality shows has revived segregation to get the buzz back and get the ratings back. The only story I've read all the way through is Lisa de Moraes' on washingtonpost.com and it does a good job getting to the point of big dumb labels that would put say, a person of Mexican descent and a person of Cuban descent on a "Hispanic" team. But it also neatly describes CBS's "The Early Show's" transparent and limp attempt to get some network buzz going.
I don't know, how about a show where "different" families try to move in to an all-white gated community. Too real? Or too close to ABC's never aired "Welcome to The Neighborhood."
So the daddy of American reality shows has revived segregation to get the buzz back and get the ratings back. The only story I've read all the way through is Lisa de Moraes' on washingtonpost.com and it does a good job getting to the point of big dumb labels that would put say, a person of Mexican descent and a person of Cuban descent on a "Hispanic" team. But it also neatly describes CBS's "The Early Show's" transparent and limp attempt to get some network buzz going.
I don't know, how about a show where "different" families try to move in to an all-white gated community. Too real? Or too close to ABC's never aired "Welcome to The Neighborhood."
posted by Mike Gibson at 6:52 AM
1 Comments:
It's unfortunate that race matters so much in our country. The "bigotry demons" are working overtime at CBS. 20 contestants will be divided into the White Tribe, the African American Tribe, the Asian American Tribe and the Hispanic Tribe. Why not a Native American Tribe or a Japanese American Tribe? It seems to me the African American Tribe, Native American Tribe and Japense American Tribe are real survivors of American Racism let get them to play the game.
Ooops the "bigotry demons" at CBS got it wrong, what is the white tribe doing in there? Let's kick out the white tribe real soon, they are not really "survivors" they are descendents of slave owners and neocolonialist but not really "survivors." How about a Jewish holocoust tribe for good measure. Oops again, to old, not in the CBS viewer market. How about an O.J. Simpson tribe? A Rodney King Tribe? Oh better yet, how about a KKK Tribe?
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