An Island Divided ...
By: MEGAN RUSSELL -- Online Desk | ∞
Playing the race card is the name of the game for this season's set of survivors.
Given the current political climate, is it wise for the next season of reality show Survivor to divide their contestants along race lines?
The next season of Survivor, which in the past has divided competitive teams by age and sex, CBS says this year they will divide their teams into four categories: white, black, Asian and Latino.
Is CBS trying to push the country's red-hot button of illegal immigration thinking this will drive ratings further than ever? Or are they just politically clueless?
Of course, we know that if the show was run by the Marie Waldron and the Escondido City Council, the Latino team would have to show their papers before given a tent.
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Great idea wrote on Aug 28, 2006 9:11 PM:looks just like real life.
Oceansdie Chris wrote on Aug 31, 2006 9:21 AM:The only color CBS is worried about is green. Even with a major sponsor dropping out, CBS will still rake in the green -- and did a marketing coup by having all the free publicity across the various networks, newspapers and water coolers. A smart marketing move. Simply genious.
JM in Escondido wrote on Sep 4, 2006 1:38 PM:Disgusting, neglectful, vile, greedy, slimy, hurtful, harmful, shameful, filthy, rotten, and sad. These are all words that are synonimous with CBS' new Suvivor show. In a time when people of ALL kinds need to come together as one, you seperate them based on ethnicity (or are you saying that they are different races?)!!! A terrible ploy to get ratings. But that's alright, the Devil's favorite sins are greed and vanity...
Daren wrote on Sep 13, 2006 6:42 PM:There is nothing wrong or racial about this. Too many overly-sensitive people with too much time on their hands.
A Realist: wrote on Sep 22, 2006 10:18 AM:What is a reality show? do they have commercials? Forget it! And that is how I really feel about todays TV.
John wrote on Sep 25, 2006 5:20 AM:Reality show? The people who put this junk on TV wouldnt know reality if it bit them in the ass.
dennis wrote on Oct 9, 2006 9:41 AM:Who gives a damned? Stop watching this rot and it will go away naturally.
John wrote on Oct 10, 2006 6:08 AM:Take this thing called TV away from the American public and this country will go insane.
Hard worker wrote on Oct 13, 2006 7:37 AM: What is a reality show? Is that something on TV? Don't have time.
ObSERVER wrote on Sep 6, 2007 9:55 PM:Funny that you can't leave Marie Waldron out of it - It's about the rule of law, not race. You lose all credibility when you show the race card.
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