Apparently Americans like watching seemingly kind hearted people make fools of themselves on TV. After all, that somehow seems to be the real secret of reality television, doesn't it? You can safely sit on a couch behind curtains, close off the world, and flip on the boob tube and watch someone else be the fool.. watch someone else get laughed at.. watch someone else's life from a distance.
The latest example of our nation's ability to find strange programming and make it a hit comes from HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO, the show based on the child from Georgia pageant fame. The show is now gathering about 2 million plus viewers for TLC.. and now that the new child star of the "reality" genre is getting more fame and fortune, she is also being attached heavily throughout the web world. A girl, simply living her childhood, thrust onto camera and forced to be a star--and now she will have the cloud of fame that follows her beyond into age.
Ratings are rising, promising that the sick theater of reality programming is a sure bet to continue for a while, despite the probable detrimental effect he could have on the national psyche. So with that, for those out there who want to be famous on TEEE VEEE, with reality programming being so young, there are plenty more chances for you to get yourself involved with the genre that can steal away your dignity for a couple thousand dollars--even though your image will be plastered all over everything for ever..
Honey Boo Boo will one day be an adult. I wonder how her childhood of television programming and giving up a pet pig on TV will help or hinder her eventual development... Don't you?