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jrtom ([personal profile] jrtom) wrote2005-11-17 02:34 pm
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can we please stop calling it "reality TV" now?

Fake space travel as reality show

Up next in reality TV: people are hoaxed into believing that they have been married, adopted a child, been inducted into the armed forces, been kidnapped...this is starting to remind me uncomfortably of this real news story, in which the Power (or, rather, the Vulnerability) of Gullibility (and its Use for Evil) are quite thoroughly demonstrated.