"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
-Isaac Newton
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Extreme Exploitation
I love the show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" - touches my heart and makes me cry every time! But after reading this I am so terribly disappointed in the show's producers that I'm not sure I can watch it anymore....
I guess in my naive little mind I always thought the people in need asked the show for help and that ABC helped out of the goodness of their hearts, which does make for good TV. I had no idea they went out searching for people with certain afflictions!
"We're so sorry your husband died when a car fell on him and you have no money to repair your half-burned-down house, but we're looking for people with skin cancer right now."
I am a GRITS (Girl Raised In The South), a 3rd generation Texan with roots in Mississippi and Tennessee. I have a wonderful husband and three great kids - a son in the Navy, an daughter studying Theatre at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and a son who plays trombone in the high school band. My mom is a three-time survivor of breast cancer - a disease that affects mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends - please click on the link below to help fund mammograms for women who can't afford them!
2 comments:
Absolutely absurd. Just goes to show you it's not about the people, it's about the viewers they can bring in.
I guess in my naive little mind I always thought the people in need asked the show for help and that ABC helped out of the goodness of their hearts, which does make for good TV. I had no idea they went out searching for people with certain afflictions!
"We're so sorry your husband died when a car fell on him and you have no money to repair your half-burned-down house, but we're looking for people with skin cancer right now."
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