Tags: CNN, media, television
October 19, 2009 | Rants
When is a situation not a situation even when it’s reported on from the Situation Room? When it involves some sad-ass family looking to become reality television stars.
It seemed too good a story to be true: a young boy trapped in a camera-friendly balloon zipping across the skies like some modern-day Phileas Fogg and with the perfect name of Falcon (one wonders if the family had this child specifically for this purpose) to boot. And it was.
The boy’s family, the Heenes, were apparently looking to get on reality television and decided, appropriately enough, to get the ball rolling by manipulating the public with a staged stunt meant to titillate those at home with the handfuls of Doritos at the ready.
But it came out in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, that bearded man who emerged like sand fleas out of the Gulf War and into our homes, that the whole thing was a hoax — even if Blitzer himself didn’t at first understand that.
Reality t.v. is destroying America! Back when ‘Cheers’ was on, all that would happen is people would drink themselves to death.
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