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MEMBER BLOG TAG: the moment of truth

Friday, March 21, 2008 10:42AM
 
the moment of truth | money, honey
Tags: television, the moment of truth, reality television, the fourth estate, media, relationships, truth, cultural comment, culture, world cultural mores, sadi ranson-polizzotti, Fox, Fox television, Fox Network, money, game shows, reality game shows, programs, television programs, programme, ranson-polizzotti, moment of truth, lying, honesty, money, cash reward, culture,
 
How we wait for it… have waited. The moment of truth - all these years, yet who would have expected it would arrive in the form it has arrived.

Some clever producer has tapped into our desire to hear the public’s desire for the absolute, unbridled truth with a capital T.  Not some watered-down friendly version that may not hurt us, but all of the shitty little things that people do to each other and think (for none of us is completely immune, though some lead a double life more than others), The Moment of Truth, a new television program, meets the supply and demand theory.

There is a voyeuristic demand to peer into the lives’...

 
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