I like to watch.
Some people are addicted to sports. As the popularity and rise of Reality TV, we can better understand why we enjoy NOT knowing the ultimate outcome of an event.
The "reality bug" has even taken hold of this online journal, as I shared my view on the American Idol competitions.
I'm also a news-head.
That's the ultimate reality. In the past 10 years I've witnessed some amazing revalations unfold before me on the television. There's something extraordinary about this first-head reality window to the world.
'Reality TV' allowed me to witness...
LAUNCH.
Ross Perot annoucing his Presidential bid on CNN. I think was eating a bowl of cereal.
BOOM, EPISODE I
I was at work at a closed-circuit TV network when CNN reported the World Trade Center had been truck-bombed.
HINDER
All of us in the network saw the live footage of reporters on the beach hindering the Marines as they landed in Somalia.
MURDER
The first flames burst out the window of the Waco compound. I swear it was the tank that caused that fire. I was eating lunch on my couch.
STUPIDITY
OJ Simpson's low-speed chase thru Los Angeles. I was an audio tech at a conference, and was in the adjacent sports bar waiting for the event to end.
THEFT
The confusion of the Presidential elections on MSNBC. Flip-flop over again. I stayed up all night. It was many weeks later until we knew who would be the new leader of America.
BOOM, EPISODE II
The twin towers in New York on September 11th... I saw the second plane hit, and the towers fall. What an eerie feeling it was not knowing what the hell was going on. The entire CJ staff was in Marc's living room in total awe.
DIDN'T VOTE FOR THE GUY
State of the Union by President Bush... where he named Iraq and Korea in the 'axis of evil'. Living room wondering who voted for this ass.
SPEAK
Countless pivotal speeches at the UN and on television. I just happened to be flipping thru.
BOOM, EPISODE IV
The world lived thru embedded reporters in Iraq, as we witnessed travel, the first combat outside Basrah, the eventually invasion of Sadam's parade ground, and multi-topplings of monolithic Sadam statues. I cringed as the Army covered his face with the American flag. I slept in my living room with Fox News for months.
MORE STUPIDITY
Yes, I was awake to see Geraldo draw secrets to the world in the sand. Ass.
TECH
With an ever-evolving world and the technology to capture it all... there's no wonder that script writers will need to possess ideas of wonder to capture an audience so saturated in excitement.
But... what about post-analysis?
So, the reality is past... amazing stories have unfolded before our eyes in real-time. Now, journalists... go and find the real stories. Go deep , and dind out if the US policies of invading another nation without mass support of the world has helped the people of Iraq.
FOX News is great at covering LIVE events, but does a poor job at post-analysis journalism. Find the truths, journalists. Show me what we've spent our tax dollars to do. That is your job....
... mine is to merely watch.
peace-
seanrox
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Haven't seen it yet... just look at the references available to savour simply from seeing the commercial.
