THE SICKNESS HAS REACHED A NEW LEVEL.

[Scorpio24]

I can't believe this shit. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1267870,00.html)

I posted this in TV as well wasn't sure where was best.

How low can people go? How the fick does this even get commisioned in the first place? The world has gone absolutley crazy. Is the Running man that far away?

[EVILxxx]

This reminds me of that King of the Hill episode, where they talk about a new reality show that gives a woman a breast implant for her right boob then they make her do something gross to get them to put in the right.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
This reminds me of that King of the Hill episode, where they talk about a new reality show that gives a woman a breast implant for her right boob then they make her do something gross to get them to put in the right.


I remember that....I thought it was a pretty good idea.

[bowieee]

That actually made me feel sick to my stomach.

[Psychocandy]

Pass the fava beans and the chianti.

But seriously...that's just fucked up. And trying to spin it with a lame excuse about how they are trying to alleviate people's ignorance. Those low stooping motherfuckers!!!

[The Postmaster General]

What the hell man? Just because we CAN, doesn't mean we HAVE TO televise every single thing imaginable. Christ.

[Vong]

Ok, the link won't work for me for some reason. Would someone mind telling me what's so sick?

[EVILxxx]

Media commentators have condemned the decision to broadcast a reality show in the Netherlands in which a dying woman will give away her kidneys to one of three contestants.
The programme, The Big Donor Show, is being made by Endemol, the company behind Big Brother.

It says it is trying to highlight the difficulty of finding kidney donor.

But Charles Fletcher, of ethical broadcasting group Mediawise, told Sky News there was no excuse for broadcasting The Big Donor Show.

He said: "This is really the dregs of broadcasting. It's what we would call narrow-casting because it's narrowing the ethics of broadcasting.

"It raises the bigger question of where we are going in regulation and broadcasting, not just in this country but around the world.

"Some of the responses we are getting is that we can turn off or change the channel. But I think there is an ethical question at the level of the production desk."

Mr Fletcher dismissed the programme-makers' defence that they were raising the issue of the shortage of kidney donors.

He said: "It's an excellent defence, very well put and it's nonsense. They're getting publicity out of this."

Chris Horrie, a lecturer and author of Tabloid Nation, said the programme was symptomatic of the way media values appeared to be changing.

He told Sky News: "Nobody ever went bust by underestimating the public taste.


"The whole media landscape is being transformed by the collapse of regulation. A few years ago TV was very tightly regulated because there were only four or five channels which went into everyone's homes.

"Now there are lots of channels and a massive appetite for reality TV which is gripping and very cheap and easy to make."

Mr Horrie said the change in ethics was being driven by the freedoms available on the internet.

He said: "The major turning point for the way the media is working here was the Saddam Hussein hanging. Somebody made these clips on a mobile phone and put them on the internet and it got a massive audience."

He said that electronic media was coming to resemble its printed counterpart - newspapers and books - where shocking images can be published and defended far more easily than if they had been broadcast on television.
-http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1267870,00.html

[Vong]

Thanks for the info Evil.

I did alittle snooping into the issue to find out more about why they are doing this.

from ctv.ca (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070529/kidney_realityshow_070529/20070529/)
"We know that this program is super controversial and some people will think it's tasteless, but we think the reality is even more shocking and tasteless: waiting for an organ is just like playing the lottery," Laurens Drillich, chairman of the BNN network, said in a statement.

She said waiting lists in the Netherlands are more than four years long and 200 patients die annually for lack of a donor.

As gruesome as it is, they are trying to at least prove a point. It's not like they are removing someone's heart and selling it on eBay. It's a kidney to which every healthy human being has 2. Maybe if people were willing to donate (blood and kidneys especially) we wouldn't have to see shows like this on TV.

[Scorpio24]

Call me cynical but i think their reasons for doing this are bullshit.

Can you even begin to imagine the agony of these three people put on this show will go through? Desperate to get a kidney to give them a chance at life they get turned down after having it dangled in front of their eyes all in the name of "entertainment". absolutley fucking sick.

[someguy]

This reminds me of that show The Biggest Loser where the fat people had to do challenges that were obviously done for cheap laughs, but the creators kept saying it was a helpful and moral show with no intent of entertainment.

Basically, it's bullshit. If you want to get your point across, do something like a documentary about the issue rather than exploit a group of people for viewership. It's a thinly veiled excuse, and if they are serious then it's a pretty immense lack of originality or class.

[The Postmaster General]

someguy makes a good point. It's hard to look past the fact that they are trying to turn it into entertainment.

At the same time though, society feeds into this sort of blah blah blah... You've heard it before. How many seasons did Biggest Loser run?

[someguy]

I hope my new show gets picked up where every week America votes on which cat gets put down. It'll bring awareness on the number of abandoned animals in the country and around the world!

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by someguy
I hope my new show gets picked up where every week America votes on which cat gets put down. It'll bring awareness on the number of abandoned animals in the country and around the world!


Nice.

I was actually thinking of ways this kidney show could be worse, and I came up with making it like Ninja Warrior competitions where there could potentially not be a winner. At the end of the season the have a ceremony, and if there is no winner, the donor kidney gets incinerated. Personally, I think the show would work better this way. Not at all, but better.

[someguy]

This reminds me slightly of this story I read a few days ago where Yoko Ono protested the royal family's killing of animals from hunting by eating a corgi.

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by someguy
This reminds me slightly of this story I read a few days ago where Yoko Ono protested the royal family's killing of animals from hunting by eating a corgi.

Please tell me that's a joke. It almost reads like Mad Libs.

[someguy]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2121267,00.html

It's Yoko Ono, everything she does is a joke

[The Postmaster General]

Jeez. To ad some sanity to the situation, she did just release a remix album.

[Vong]

It's a Hoax! (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070601/organ_show_070601/20070601?hub=TopStories)

Who knew....