Chicken S
ABC has pulled 'Welcome to the neighborhood' due to criticism. The show ostensibly looks at issues of race and prejudice by asking neighbors to live with people from other social sets.
My question is this, if you feel the show truly achieves the thought provoking intent, then stand by it for eff's sake! What is wrong with a little criticism? Isn't that a way to get people talking about the show, and the very issues the show aims to confront?
Why does everyone feel like they should duck and run if there is a little criticism?
Maybe the show is shite, and does nothing so dignified as address issues, and perhaps it just plays to stereotype, I don't know I've never seen it. I just would submit that if you feel the show is worthy of airing on your network, you should stick by your guns and air it. Don't let a few critics stand between you and principal.
My question is this, if you feel the show truly achieves the thought provoking intent, then stand by it for eff's sake! What is wrong with a little criticism? Isn't that a way to get people talking about the show, and the very issues the show aims to confront?
Why does everyone feel like they should duck and run if there is a little criticism?
Maybe the show is shite, and does nothing so dignified as address issues, and perhaps it just plays to stereotype, I don't know I've never seen it. I just would submit that if you feel the show is worthy of airing on your network, you should stick by your guns and air it. Don't let a few critics stand between you and principal.
posted by Robert_M at 11:30 AM
2 Comments:
Unfortunately, reality television and thought provoking television are mutually exclusive concepts to network television executives. If it made you think, it would be too real. Therefore it's not really reality television. Hell, even the granddaddy of all of these shows, The Real World, f's up on the issue of race. They pick stereotypical people --- dumb white southerners and chip on their shoulder minorities --- for the sole purpose of creating fireworks. That's not true to life. That's manufactured drama. And that's all "reality" television is anyway.
I'm sure you're right, I suppose it just bugs me that they try to simultaneously dignify and distance.
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