from Baghdad Burning: Proposal for an Iraqi Reality Show

[On the Road]

Sunday, April 03, 2005
American Media...

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I don’t understand the worlds fascination with reality shows. Survivor, The Bachelor, Murder in Small Town X, Faking It, The Contender… it’s endless. Is life so boring that people need to watch the conjured up lives of others?

I have a suggestion of my own for a reality show. Take 15 Bush supporters and throw them in a house in the suburbs of, say, Falloojeh for at least 14 days. We could watch them cope with the water problems, the lack of electricity, the check points, the raids, the Iraqi National Guard, the bombings, and- oh yeah- the ‘insurgents’. We could watch their house bombed to the ground and their few belongings crushed under the weight of cement and brick or simply burned or riddled with bullets. We could see them try to rebuild their life with their bare hands (and the equivalent of $150)…

I’d not only watch *that* reality show, I’d tape every episode.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#111247654157434704

Plus lots of great surreal stuff on American TV in Iraq. (scroll down to "American Media")