Just the day, whilst on the treadmill, to beat boredom, I was just gazing the programme on the telly. They were showing a talk show called 'Jeremy Kyle Show'.
It is a trashy tabloid like a talk show, of the dysfunctional working class and usually fat people being paid to talk about their intimate problems in the open demanding something like a street justice from the audience who are just there because they probably have no job. The host of the show is, of course, Jeremy Kyle as the title suggests, an ex-insurance salesman, who tries to give his more than 2cents (maybe penny as it is a British show) to his guests, accompanied by the applause of the audience which sounds like a drum roll before a punch dialogue. (tarararara.....dish!!!)....Like in 'How I met your mother' when Barney says it, "Legend........wait for it........dary!"
It is produced along the same line of 'Jerry Springer Show' in the US.
The same theme of thriving in displaying thrashy problematic families with problems of infidelity, violence, drugs, sex and low self-esteem and trying to offer instant justice and solution.
But hey wait! Aren't most teenagers these days in the Facebook era doing the same thing? First, they will proudly exhibit their relationship as being in a relationship. They will publicly display their affection by telling their feelings and pictures. Felicitations will pour in from 4 corners of the world, of how they are lucky and a pair made in heaven blah, blah... After some time, interest will start to wane, the status will be changed to 'it is complicated'.
Just as fast, queries will pour in from concerned netizens and FB'ers. Both parties will try to tell their side of the story and try to obtain cyber sympathy and cyber justice. Now, how different is this from the shows above?
Maybe I am just too conscious about my privacy and try to keep my problems to myself. Perhaps also, I do not like to portray myself as weak and defeatist. Anyway, this world and its people have their own plethora of problems too, so why bother?
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| Jeremy Kyle Show |
It is produced along the same line of 'Jerry Springer Show' in the US.
The same theme of thriving in displaying thrashy problematic families with problems of infidelity, violence, drugs, sex and low self-esteem and trying to offer instant justice and solution.
But hey wait! Aren't most teenagers these days in the Facebook era doing the same thing? First, they will proudly exhibit their relationship as being in a relationship. They will publicly display their affection by telling their feelings and pictures. Felicitations will pour in from 4 corners of the world, of how they are lucky and a pair made in heaven blah, blah... After some time, interest will start to wane, the status will be changed to 'it is complicated'.
Just as fast, queries will pour in from concerned netizens and FB'ers. Both parties will try to tell their side of the story and try to obtain cyber sympathy and cyber justice. Now, how different is this from the shows above?
Maybe I am just too conscious about my privacy and try to keep my problems to myself. Perhaps also, I do not like to portray myself as weak and defeatist. Anyway, this world and its people have their own plethora of problems too, so why bother?
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