Baby Big Brother
I read the following on Sky News today and really cannot make my mind up about it:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1199496,00.html
The story is also below:
A woman has given birth in front of the cameras on the Dutch version of Big Brother.
Tanja - a contestant on the reality TV programme - gave birth to a healthy daughter.
She is hoping the footage will boost her chances of winning the programme's 400,000 euros prize. The birth will be allowed to be shown on TV after talks between the producers and the Social Affairs Ministry.
"It will not show any explicit scenes," said Stephanie Dekker, from the Talpa network.
She said medical and educational TV programmes had shown more graphic footage of births.
The government has also set down guidelines for producers to abide by in televising the new baby.
This includes only showing the baby on air for a maximum of eight hours over the duration of the show, which ends on December 22. She must also stay in a room where cameras are not allowed, and where her mother and grandparents may be with her in private.
I cannot work out if this is sheer depravity in our society or an embracing of something beautiful displayed for all to see. I do know one thing - if there are other housemates which I am in no doubt there are, this little new contestant isn't going to half annoy them.
Seriously though - I cannot believe that we are living in a society where someone would be prepared to do such a thing and go through such a thing for the sake of money. Maybe the whole thing is very clever as it is getting people like me talking about it and consequently publisising the show.
I guess the little fella (or in this cause little lady) is immediatley put into the media spotlight and probably hasn't even learned to feed properly yet. That cannot be good can it?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1199496,00.html
The story is also below:
A woman has given birth in front of the cameras on the Dutch version of Big Brother.
Tanja - a contestant on the reality TV programme - gave birth to a healthy daughter.
She is hoping the footage will boost her chances of winning the programme's 400,000 euros prize. The birth will be allowed to be shown on TV after talks between the producers and the Social Affairs Ministry.
"It will not show any explicit scenes," said Stephanie Dekker, from the Talpa network.
She said medical and educational TV programmes had shown more graphic footage of births.
The government has also set down guidelines for producers to abide by in televising the new baby.
This includes only showing the baby on air for a maximum of eight hours over the duration of the show, which ends on December 22. She must also stay in a room where cameras are not allowed, and where her mother and grandparents may be with her in private.
I cannot work out if this is sheer depravity in our society or an embracing of something beautiful displayed for all to see. I do know one thing - if there are other housemates which I am in no doubt there are, this little new contestant isn't going to half annoy them.
Seriously though - I cannot believe that we are living in a society where someone would be prepared to do such a thing and go through such a thing for the sake of money. Maybe the whole thing is very clever as it is getting people like me talking about it and consequently publisising the show.
I guess the little fella (or in this cause little lady) is immediatley put into the media spotlight and probably hasn't even learned to feed properly yet. That cannot be good can it?
posted by monty at
11:48 PM
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