Subject: big brother
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 05:49:23 GMT
>===== Original Message From "Matthew Jones" <columnatedruinsdomino@hotmail.com> =====
>Recently, I was appalled to read about a TV show in Britain called "Big
>Brother". The concept is that a group of people submit themselves to months
>of 24-hour survelliance that is broadcast every day on TV and the internet.
>As a result of these broadcasts, these strange exhibitionists become
>celebrities (or part of what I like to call the modern "celebrity class").
>Their celebrity arises not because they have achieved something (artistic,
>scientific, academic, political, or athletic), but simply because they are
>on television, doing nothing but sitting around a house for months. It seems
>that commercial TV is assessing to what depths they can drag the quality of
>their output, while still retaining viewers who will gobble up the multitude
>of noisy advertisements.
>
>Matthew Jones.
Just on the remote chance that any of you had any romantic quaint idea
about the Dutch (obviously with the exception of scotty), this show
originates from the Netherlands. But nothing can
surprise me anymore about my fellow countrymen, after a poll showed
that 85 procent of the Dutch wholeheartedly support the marriage of
the crown-prince with an Argentinian junta daughter, even when it
was proved that father was in on all the murders and disappearances, during the
Junta years.
To my fellow under 25's: search on www.google.com for "Argentina", "Videla", and
"Maxima Zorreguieta", if you don't have a clue what i'm talking and don't want to a
history dunce
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