Reality TV & Gossip TV

[Greyson]

Originally Posted by princessbelle

I'll be perfectly honest here, i just have very mixed feelings about this. I have read a little about this and what i've read may not be all that is out there and more information could certainly sway how i view it.

But.

One the one hand...you have a radio station and program with a poor history regarding the "people" behind the pranks. I find the whole thing in bad taste if nothing else. The paparazzi there is even worse than here and i want to believe that they have laws for such things. We can get in trouble here, in the States, for impersonating a government official. I am surprised the same is not true there.

On the other hand....I have read they did not expect to get to talk to even a nurse on the floor. Breakdown in policy of the hospital? Not sure what their hippa rules are there. Here in the United States we use passwords/codes that only the next of kin know. Our Hippa laws are non negotiable and they can land a nurse to be stripped of her license and even serve time. Again, i have no clue what the rules are there.

What i find that is very intriguing about what i know about this and even very odd is that the lady that killed herself wasn't even the one that gave out the information, it was a different nurse. Apparently the one that took her life only handed someone else the phone. So with the info i have so far it is just hard to swallow that this was the only reason.

Was she depressed? On medications? Suicidal anyway? Was she sick with a disease? I understand that no note was left? So, no one really knows the why, if i have my information correct. Or....was it because she was POC and from India, maybe how she was raised or the beliefs there, including shame as being a huge reason to turn their backs on their own families, could be an issue.

I'm just not sure. But, i am VERY hesitant to put all of the blame solely on two radio personalities, even though they don't seem to have high standards for humility, without knowing a LOT more details.

As far as too much reality TV, i don't see it as bringing more problems to our civilization. Whether i'm watching Honey BooBoo getting a manicure and cussing at the age of 4 or watching people being blown up or shot to death on a fictional detective shows, my view of the world and my personal meaning in life doesn't change.

Belle, I can understand mixed feelings. It is my understanding in what I have read in the media the woman who killed herself was the nurse that talked to the DJ thinking she was talking to the Queen.

Knowing you, I believe you that your personal world view will not change. Sadly, that is not the case for many. Some will watch Honey Boo Boo and it will serve to support a negative stereotype about "Rednecks." I use to watch Cowboy movies as a child and I winced, my stomach would tighten because the mexicans were always portrayed as lazy, dishonet, not so smart, villians, or the mexican people were "simple" and peasants. How do you feel about the stereotypes about people from TN?

Finally, just because I may think something, it does not make it 100% full proof correct. I just don't see the value in Reality TV. I don't even find it entertaining. I think it serves in dumbbing down our thinking skills and expectations of civility.