Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Skeletons

I remember the days when scandal was spent conveniently and relentlessly under the rug. Skeletons were tossed into the closet and left there, not paraded for hits and ratings. Someone said the best revenge is living well, and I guess all those miserable kids with repressed/depressing/abused/insert negativity childhoods are living well by selling their stories to the media in some form of another. Forget 'got milk?'... 'got problems?' is the new slogan. Cash in and get revenge from all the nut jobs in your life who treated you like crap by going public with it. Those skeletons make some pretty music once you let em out.

What brought this on? Was just noticing the amazing amount of 'scandal advertising'. The E! Channel, for one. They advertise even the smallest mistakes/scandals to hell and back to get ratings. Reality TV gets higher ratings with more scandal/conflict and dirty linen airing in public. Check out the Osbournes, American Idol, The Bachelor, Temptation Island and God knows how many others.

Misha at Wednesday, October 20, 2004

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