Culture is dead...Reality TV Killed It

Sir Michael Parkinson, one of the true luminaries of BBC, has hit out against the media recently for the truly horrid attention they’ve given Jade Goody saying : “Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it’s significant, it’s nothing to be proud of. Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it’s not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di.
“When we clear the media smoke screen from around her death, what we’re left with is a woman who came to represent all that’s paltry and wretched about Britain today.
“She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and became a media chattel to be exploited till the day she died”
Why are people so desperate for media attention? I was arguing the Jade Goody example with a friend and she said “At least she got some money for her kid’s education.” I almost choked on my coffee. Really? That’s the best defense we can come up with for her tawdry, attention-starved televised demise? She got some money for her kids?
If your mother behaved in such a manner, would you be proud or in need of a large number of prescription pills?
I don’t understand this world anymore. Truly, I don’t.
India, too is under serious siege, with reality shows. Some are interesting enough in that they promote the search and discovery of new talent (which is sorely needed), but the rest?? Do we fucking care about Rakhee Sawant’s desire to get married on national television?
There is nothing quite like this woman on earth. For those of you who haven’t been blessed with the knowledge of who this paragon of talent, beauty, grace, and charisma is - keep it that way! You really don’t want to/need to know. They’re calling this show (a blatant rip-off of the equally horrid/culture raping “Jodie Marsh : Who’ll Take Her Up the Aisle“) Rakhee ka Swayamvara. Really? Swayamvara? For Rakhee Sawant?
God save this country. For we don’t seem to want to.