Reality-show Producers Facing Severe Shortage of Real People

[spooky3]

http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1158

Disclosure: for the satire challenged, this is a humor column.

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The study, commissioned by the University of Minnesota’s Reality Institute, has caused alarm in the reality TV community, with producers increasingly fearful that that real people, the bread and butter of the genre, may be becoming an endangered species.

Dr. Colson McLeod, who supervised the study, said that with the proliferation of reality shows on nearly every cable TV network, it is nearly impossible to find an American who has not already had his home, car or face made over by a team of experts.

“If you take a random sample of one hundred Americans, you will find that eighty-five percent of them have either gotten married, competed for a modeling contract, or eaten bug larva on TV,” Dr. McCleod said. “And the rest have sung ‘The Wind Beneath My Wings.’”

For reality show producers like Clive Leisen, who is attempting to launch a new program called “Trading Medications,” the search for real people to serve as contestants has never been a more daunting task.

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[liberal N proud]

1. The should have 59 million stupid republican out there that would

be willing to make asses out of themselves for corporate profit of the media moguls.

All I can do is sit and laugh at the producers.

[Love Bug]

2. "University of Minnesota Reality Institute" lol

What's their slogan: "Get a life"?