Unreal TV
While randomly flipping through channels the other night, I ended up in the middle of a clip from the stupid send-in-your-dumb-home-videos show; Real TV. Usually I watch that for about 30 seconds, then change channel quickly, but this time I was actualy aghast at what I saw.
I entered into the middle of a video that was recoreded from a security camera at some club or business. What it showed was one guy being hunted down, shot and killed in a room full of pool tables. The narrator explained that the video, which repeated and zoomed-in on the shots to the victims head, that this was evidence tap for a murder in which the shooter was convicted. Finding that randomly on TV was absolutely stunning and actually shocking.
I mean, I’ve seen Faces of Death, Rotten, Afganistan and Iraq War Crimes evidence videos, and PETA videos about the Asian fur traders, so I have seen real deaths and horific video images. Most of the aforementioned were quite disturbing, but when I saw them I was expecting the worse and I had warning about what I was going to see. This was just out of the blue, WHAM real life murder right in front of my face. On prime time before 10 pm! Is human life so worthless that it is only worth a 5 minute segment on a crappy show just so they can get some ratings??
Worst of all, at the end, when the narrator was on camera again, his line was: “Okay, you can bring the kids back into the room now.” I’m sorry, but you showed a fucking real murder and expect people to just shoo their kids out of the room, watch it, then ignore it like it was nothing? Perfect example of absolutely disgustingly desenstized the American TV programs expect their audience to be.
And yes, the convicted murderer was apprently appealing the verdict after trying to claim the shooting was self defence. (It’s coming right for us!)