I honesty did not like this essay. It wasn’t because of the style, or that it was boring. Even the general topic was okay. However, I did not like the message it was sending. The ‘feel sorry for those people who won’t help themselves.’ I strongly disagree with this message.
I don’t watch talk shows, I might had once seen Jerry Springer, but that is all. The title seems to go against the whole essay. She is not defending the talk show, but the people who are going on to talk shows and sharing their life story for our entertainment. Her reason is of why they do this is, “For the most part, is people who are so needy—of social support, of education, of material resources and self-esteem—that they mistake being the center of attention for being actually loved and respected,” this is the turning point of the essay that I became to hate. The, they are in poverty that these people are poor, that we must feel sorry for themselves because they have life so hard.
This essay has a lot of political views that I strongly disagree with and is probably while I dislike this essay so much.
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I found this essay to be extremely irrelevant. We all know what talk shows are about, and for the majority, most of us don’t like them, and however I found it had a few points. Class exploitation is a big problem with talk shows. They exploit the lower class people, but that is kind of the peoples fault for allowing their selves to be exploited like that. I don’t like talk shows at all; they all have the same thing to say: some one cheated on someone else, or some other trashy drama. I really didn’t feel as if the essay defended talk shows either, just the people that shared their life drama with the world.
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