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Show The Salt Lake Tribune TELEVISION Saturday, March 10, 2001 Are American TV Viewers Now Incapable of Separating an Actual Crisis From a Reality-ShowMishap? BY HOWARD ROSENBERG LOS ANGELES TIMES HOLLYWOOD — 15-year-old student shoots osa suburban San Diego high school, killing two and wounding 13 others. Nightmare. A US. nuclear submarine crashes into a Japanese fishing boat, leaving nine missing and presumed dead. Nightmare. 2 In the towns, villages and rain forests of Borneo, bands of Dayaks slaughter hundreds,perhaps thousands of Madurese,including children, beheading many and ripping out their hearts. Nightmare. Michael Skupin is taped fleeing toapond with nasty hand burns on “Survivor: The Australian Outback,” and when the episode airs on CBS months later, some at CBS News and others in the media coverit as a major breaking story. Hype. Is it possible that many Americans no longer can separate involve = from the safety of their homes — in dangers said to be faceee a adventurers on the re wutsoee “Rising out of the South China Sea is a land where explorers vanish, where exotic creatures live, conflict or crisis from the faux or whipped-up kind,so impenetrable are their brains after having blurs of TV images hurled at them, each appearing of equal weight? Is it possible, also, that the real world doesn’t offer enough peril to satisfy the appetites ofthese thrillstarved TV viewers? That's what manyin the industry must believe. Else why oe they create so “Survivoresque” TV slowstha thar Channel pa province of Central Kalimantan. More savage still, this is the Borneo of. “Eco-Challenge.” Airing on the USA Network next month are four nights of 8:30 KUTV-2> “Eco-Challenge: Borneo” capsulizing a 12-day competition said to “punish, torment and take no prisoners.” teary voice: “We need immediate assistance on the bike course.” And the Madurese think they haveit bad. Speaking here to viewers from time to time, as executive producer and founder of the annual “Eco” is nohe other than and “Survivor II” creator Mark Burnett, the driven. TV impresario who is becoming this milieu’s Vince McMahon of carefully charted spontaneity. The WWF doesn’t do it any shrewder than Burnett, whose 6-year-old “Eco-Challenge” has been telecast previously, but never before as 9:00 9:30 4045 whathe calls “unscripted drama.” Read that to mean swollen melodramatics. antii S20mile race across water and rugged terrain was surely challenging on many , and mostofthes0spartilpants rom 28 countries are tough, earnest competitors. Yet affirming that Bur. nett has not lost his marketing touch are three of the novices he chose to include. FormerPlayboy centerfolds. When two of them are forced ashore after their boat springs a leak, your pulse is pounding and heart in your throat as they labor to patch thehole, a camera in their telegenic faces. “Status: Marooned.” What's more, another competitor is there after only recently learning to their boat and, possibly, their lives.” And viewers should care deeply? Keep in mind, no one forced anyone here — or “Survivor II's” Skupin and ‘his fellow cameraready dabblers, for that matter — into daredevildom. Unlike the murdered masses in the Indonesian region ofBorneo—south ofthe Malaysian sector where USA says “Eco-Challenge” was taped — these participants chose to expose themselves to risks. They had options. LANDERS 10:00 ‘TWPG) KSL-5 > Back & Forth KUED-7 > (CC) 30864 > KJZZ-14 We Can Learn Day. 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Uae Een (CNpm885017 Toke 2: (2) 8:30 pm1 O'Reilly Factor: (FX! Larry lineLives ( ower Patricia ¥ 9arst Liondihegdateniigdt fhTick Shay Focnaom, Utah 201: 8:30 am 42830 (EXNWS) 10 pm SUNDAY FOR Tony Brown's ee ee THIS Today is Saturday, March 10, the 69th day of 2001. There are 296 in Tulsa. Oxia (Live) 22403 Gemstar VCR Plus+ system. if you have a VCR with the VCR plus+ LineuP strict, butit certainlyis effective. Thepolice in Vietnam have a baton and a whistle. There is no litter anywhere, and I mean none. These people are incredibly gentle and havethe highest,moral standards. There is enormous family pride. Children there behave beautifully because they do not wantto embarrass their parents. Lovely,isn’t it? We could learn a lot from the Vietnamese. I am — Howard F. Cook in Houston, Texas Dear Howard Cook:Your letter brought back some warm and ‘beautiful memories. WhenI visited our hospitalized soldiers in Vietnam in 1967, I, too, was impressed by how respectful and well-behaved the children were. mn Jjubliee Latte Kidition: (CNN) 10 am 048275 Thi Week(4)1am(0)8408 Frum: (9) 6 pm Today:(8) 7 am — Tho success of way (N) YeletausCNN)tam aataea Judith lng Live:( Foipena Peniea tare Hannity & Colmes: (FXNWS) 11 pm daysleft in the year. Today’s Highlightin History: On March10,1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's. telephonetook place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, “Mr. Watson, comehere.I wantyou.” Onthisdate: In 1496, Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. In 1848, the Senate.ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico. In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant became commanderofthe Union armies in the Civil War. In 1880, the Salvation Armyarrived in the United States from England. In 1948, the body of the antiCommunist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague. In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “AxisSally,” was convicted in \ C. of treason. She served 12 years in prison, In 1969, James Earl Raypleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death, In 1980, Scarsdale Diet author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. Jean Harris, convicted of murder, served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in 1993. |
