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 Pesadelo 
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Wed May 30, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: Big Donor Show |
 
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From Scotsman.com News:
WE HAVE seen TV show contestants eat grubs, allow themselves to be entombed underground in rat-filled caskets and undergo prolonged sleep deprivation in the name of live entertainment. But reality television is set to reach a nadir as Endemol, the maker of Big Brother, unveils a programme in which contestants compete for the chance to win a kidney from a dying woman.
Called The Big Donor Show, the programme will air this Friday in the Netherlands despite an outcry from politicians who denounced it as "wretched".
The 80-minute show, to be broadcast on the youth network BNN, involves a 37-year-old woman called Lisa who is terminally ill. Three contestants aged between 18 and 40, all with kidney disease, will compete for public votes to secure the organ by making short films about their lives. Viewers can text the dying woman with messages about who should get the kidney.
Laurens Drillich, the president of BNN, said: "Participants have a 33 per cent chance of getting a kidney. That is substantially higher than people on the waiting list." BNN also advances the argument that its founder, Bart de Graaf, was a kidney patient who died five years ago, and the show highlights the shortage of organ donors.
Joop Atsma, a leading Christian Democrat politician, said he hoped the programme - which he branded "degrading, heartless and morally wrong" - might still be pulled.
"BNN is solving one problem, but creates two others. Did BNN even consider how the two people will feel who will be rejected as donor recipients?"
The "star" of The Big Donor Show said she is happy to go ahead despite the fact the transplant authority in the Netherlands criticised the programme as "a step towards organ trading". Kidney charities in the UK were also critical. Sheena Dunsmore, the manager of the Scottish charity Kidney Kids, said she believed the show demeaned the work involved in donation.
"People have to be a complete match, it can't just be any kidney. If you have a child that needs a kidney transplant, you've got to go on a waiting list for the next few years to get a complete match. I don't think a programme like this would go down too well," she said.
The row came as Endemol faces unprecedented pressure over decency in the forthcoming series of Big Brother, which it makes for Channel 4. The first show, to be broadcast tomorrow, will open with an apology to viewers over the treatment of the Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty by other contestants in January's Celebrity Big Brother, after she was the victim of allegedly racist comments.
One media expert said television was being driven downmarket. Chris Horrie, the author of Tabloid Nation, said: "What's really driving this is the internet. You've got Saddam Hussein being hanged, people burnt to death in cars, stuff being caught on mobile phones. The argument that people need to be protected from their own baser instincts doesn't really make any sense any more.
"Television and the web are fusing together and turning into the world's most luscious tabloid. It is like undiluted porn, sport nonsense, football speculation, conspiracy theories, people selling their organs, freak show plus cutesy pets."
Charles Fletcher, an Edinburgh media analyst, said he believed broadcasters were succumbing to a downward spiral in media ethics. "The donor programme is scandalous, the dregs of broadcasting," he said.
In a reference to a forthcoming programme by Channel 4 featuring graphic pictures of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, he added: "You just have to look at the debate [over the images], even contemplating running those pictures is a disgrace."
more @ http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=832572007
or @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm
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Wed May 30, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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freaky! i think this has gone way too far. turning such things into "entertainment" is really disgusting. sooo, what seemed to be sci-fi 20 years ago has turned into a real nightmare, hasn't it? 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/
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 Death_Medic
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Wed May 30, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Well its everybodies morbid curiousity... Do you slow down to look at a car crash? There you have it.
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 Dark
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Wed May 30, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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 misanthrone
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Location: BC, Canada
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Wed May 30, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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sick!!!..how low can U go? 
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Death_Medic
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Wed May 30, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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and to think its illegal to sell your own organs. fucked up isn't it?
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 kanibaal
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Thu May 31, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: |
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WELCOME TO HOLLAND GUYS!!! LMAO
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Pesadelo
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Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Thu May 31, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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No, kani, Holland is just a piece of the world. WELCOME TO HUMANITY!
@ dark & D_M: LMFAO
@ digi & misa: freaky & sick, yes!
@ digi: Mi-am pierdut ochelarii.  Nice avatar. Meow for ya!  |
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Dark
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Thu May 31, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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If its illegal... i wonder how many thousands i could get for sellin my dong to some underappreactiated small peckerd asian guy on the black market? |
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 Dami
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: |
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Depends if he wants to transplant or eat it 
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kanibaal
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:04 am Post subject: |
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nechesthecat
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Eh, let 'em swap organs; if it helps someone, so be it. Weird shit, though.
BTW, anyone got some fresh lungs available?
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Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:24 am Post subject: |
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i am organ donor, so if i die and my lung stays in good shape maybe you are the lucke guy to get it 
i think this show is a good thing. many people here don't even think about donating their organs... but i think they should.
guess this show isn't any sicker than war tv or whatever they call it when you get footage from the frontlines with embedded journalists and shit...
here in germany your organs may only be removed and used for others if you allow it while you are alive. in belgium for example it is the opposite: if you do not disagree they will take from your corpse what they can get. that is the better way to handle it i think. so even stupid fucks that did never even have one thought about donating their dead ass' parts can be of some help to others. |
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 yvesson
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Joined: Oct 29, 2006
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Location: france, picardy
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Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: |
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Hej,
Well it was a joke.
I was right not to comment on that anywhere then ^^
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diginferno
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Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: |
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@neches: ask Waff, he may have a spare one
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