They Shoot Horses Don't They?

[joanna bujes]

I don't know how many of you caught the movie "They Shoot Horses Don't 
They?" -- based on the Carson McCullers story. It featured a great cast and 
was set at a depression-era dance marathon. So, maybe we're not in a 
depression yet, but you wouldn't know it by the mushrooming "reality" 
shows. For example, the following.

Joanna
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Who Wants to Be Employed?

                            By Jennifer C. Berkshire, AlterNet

                            October 15, 2002

   Out of work or afraid that you might soon be? Not to worry. Americans

   may soon be able to compete for jobs the old fashioned way: on a reality

  TV show.

  It's no joke. In the latest addition to the reality genre, contestants 
will go

  head to head for a chance at that increasingly scarce commodity,

  employment. Potential candidates will place ads with an employment

  agency, then undergo tests and on-the-job training. Finally, the two

  applicants deemed most qualified by the agency will subject themselves to

  the ultimate job interview: viewer approval. The candidate with the most
viewer votes gets the job; the loser will be sent packing: "You are

  unemployed -- goodbye!"

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14283