Title: SURVIVOR divides by race
Description: Hot topic or non-issue?
Chris Barry - September 14, 2006 03:51 PM (GMT)
I think this is an interesting ploy SURVIVOR's using here - dividing tribes by race. But some folks are a little rankled.
SURVIVOR Chicago Sun-Times article David Austin - September 14, 2006 07:26 PM (GMT)
I think it's a clever press tactic, but non-issue for real human beings. Anyone who makes a fuss about it, pro or con, is doing exactly what the CBS marketers want them to. A minor local politician in NY, John Liu, made a bit of stink, but the kind of fake stink where you just know he smiled ear to ear on seeing the casting news because it was an opportunity to get his face on TV.
Bernie Jacobs - September 14, 2006 07:29 PM (GMT)
Such a non-issue.
It's a game show, fer Crissake.
And as the commercials are pointing out, they've already done divisions by gender and age.
Really, it's just a ploy to try to bring in more minority viewers. As Jeff Probst admitted on some cable show last night (I was just going around the dial), Survivor's applicants -- as well as its audience -- skews 90+ percent white.
They're just trying to expand their base.
Marty Langford - September 15, 2006 02:22 PM (GMT)
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And as the commercials are pointing out, they've already done divisions by gender and age.
Really, it's just a ploy to try to bring in more minority viewers. As Jeff Probst admitted on some cable show last night (I was just going around the dial), Survivor's applicants -- as well as its audience -- skews 90+ percent white.
They're just trying to expand their base. |
Of course, you're 100% correct, but that doesn't make it a non-issue.
Burnett and friends are dying for that first racial slur, for that first race-based confrontation, and ultimately for that reconcilation amongst contenders proving that we are the same regardless of our ethnicity.
There are going to be a lot of news-magazine shows, special segments on local and national news, magazine covers and watercooler chat about this ploy. I think that kind of makes it a hot topic issue (if you're keeping count).
David Austin - September 15, 2006 02:37 PM (GMT)
If it continues to be as boring as last night, it'll be a non-issue.
Every season, I try to stop myself from watching this show, which is only entertaining every 5th or 6th episode when someone musters the brains to put a plan into effect. Sometimes, I succeed, sometimes I don't.
See
Reuters Chris Barry - September 15, 2006 02:38 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Marty Langford @ Sep 15 2006, 08:22 AM) |
Burnett and friends are dying for that first racial slur, for that first race-based confrontation, and ultimately for that reconcilation amongst contenders proving that we are the same regardless of our ethnicity.
There are going to be a lot of news-magazine shows, special segments on local and national news, magazine covers and watercooler chat about this ploy. I think that kind of makes it a hot topic issue (if you're keeping count). |
Even after watching the first episode - which has players still in their "honeymoon" phase of the game, you just know the heat's gonna rise.
The team that went to tribal council has already drawn male/female lines (with Jeff Probst questioning why the females on this team weren't even consulted when the two males on the team chose who to send to exile island) and has the possibility of being the most incendiary.
I think this season could be most interesting...