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Avast there matey! Argh! Shiver me timbers! Argh!

I just saw this story at two different websites and I’m re-posting it here:

Fox to make reality TV show out of company layoffs

NEW YORK (AP) – The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy.

An upcoming series titled, “Someone’s Gotta Go,” lets employees of a small business decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off.

Fox says it has no air date yet for the series, which is being developed by the company behind “Big Brother” and “Deal or No Deal.” Each week, a different company lays off an employee.

Fox also wouldn’t reveal the show’s host, which it says is a business consultant who will offer advice to participating companies.

If this is true then Rupert Murdoch should be Keith Olberman’s “Worst Person in the World” for the rest of the year and all of next year.

I’ve seen this story posted at Pinkslips are the New Black, Yahoo! News, The 405 Club, The Huffington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, been commented on by The Washington Post, and reported by The Associated Press and United Press International through Google, so I am guessing that unfortunately this is for real.

Wifey just had a good point, the only way that any company agreed to let FOX exploit them like this is money. If we are willing to watch people sing badly to become the next music superstar, if we are willing to watch people who are overweight degrade themselves and their humanity, if we are willing to watch bachelors and bachelorette jump through hoops for a chance at finding their soul mate, if we are willing to watch 20 strangers get stranded on an island and live off the land, if we are willing to watch all of that and call it entertainment then what is next in the Faustian deal that is reality TV?

I think we just found out.

I can’t even begin to tell you just how insulting this is to all of us who are unemployed, underemployed and especially underutilized. To think that not only is our situation fodder for the drips at FIXED Noise and “Boss Hogg”; not only are there people out there going on YouTube and Twitter calling all of us lazy, good for nothing, deadbeats; not only are there people calling into talk radio and writing letters to the editor saying that we should be ashamed of ourselves for collecting unemployment if indeed we are, but now we have the same idiots at FOX who nearly destroyed the Los Angeles Dodgers and couldn’t find their asses with both hands and a GPS trying to sell our pain as entertainment?!?!?!?

Memo to FOX TV Executives: why stop there guys? Why not have cameras follow the people who get laid off on this piece of shit that you call a ratings winner, and document their struggles to get another job? Let’s see the worker on the unemployment line as they are applying for benefits. Let’s see them as they go to the food bank. Let’s see them as they apply for two dozen jobs online and then watch their agony as day after day passes without a phone call. Let’s watch them get humiliated at the family dinner table as their parents berate them for their laziness for not getting a job and then take offense when their child asks them for a job. Let’s see the dissolution and heartbreak of the worker’s family as they realize that they are about to lose their home, and since they have been abandoned by friends and family they have no place else to go. Let’s see the scene as they pull away from their house for the last time as the children are crying because they have to go live with Grandma who happens to “smell funny”. Let’s see mom and dad living in their car as he tries to go out and look for work and is turned away yet again because they “don’t want no bums here.”

Come on guys, put that on TV and call that entertainment – I DARE YA, I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YA!!!!!!!!!

Look, what is happening right now is not entertaining. People’s lives are being ruined right now, and I don’t care what Bill O’Reilly, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, “Governor Milquetoast” or “Boss Hogg” tell you about it, this is serious shit!!! People are now dying because of what is going on out there. People are being killed in Pittsburgh, in New York, in North Carolina because of the economy – does FOX want to put that on the air?

This has bad written all over it. It is a bad idea, it would be a bad show, it would be painful to watch and no one is going to want to watch it anyway. But just you wait, the Rain-men at FOX are going to want to pool all of the resources they can behind this farce because they find it amusing.

You know what would be amusing to me? If there was a reality show produced by…oh let’s say for the sake of argument MSNBC, and this reality show would go behind the scenes of the department at FOX that dreamed up this monstrosity. Then we would get to watch a FOX executive get a pink slip, one every week, until the office has been completely purged of all of the jackasses who dreamed up this fiasco. Yeah, that’s it, let’s have a reality show where dumb-ass network executives lose their jobs.

Now that’s entertainment!