Word: laguna
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...story clearly, entertainingly and quickly. News producers, documentarians--and, yes, magazine writers--selectively edit raw material and get accused of cherry-picking facts and quotes. But on an entertainment show the pressure to deliver drama is high, and the standards of acceptable fudging are shadier. The first season of Laguna Beach, MTV's reality series about rich teens in Orange County, Calif., centered on a love triangle among two girls (LC and Kristin) and a boy (Stephen). The problem, says a story editor who asked not to be named, was that the triangle didn't exist. LC and Stephen...
Tony DiSanto, executive producer of Laguna Beach, says the show's story was "enhanced" but genuine. "Stephen and LC were friends, but in the raw footage, you could see an attraction," he says. "Anytime you take anything into the editing room, you are enhancing it and editorializing. But we never make up something that hasn't happened...
...Mexico border to intercept people crossing into the U.S. The group has caught few border jumpers but generated lots of attention for its cause and is now turning its focus in from the border, staging Operation Spotlight protests not only in Phoenix but also in the California cities of Laguna Beach, Lake Forest and San Bernardino as well as Herndon, Va. There are plans for demonstrations at day-labor centers in Alabama, New York and Tennessee...
...faulting those in the predominantly female community for having an obsession with Laguna Beach,” says Greenough resident Alex R. Breaux ’09. “But when compared to live, real football, America’s sport, mind you, I don’t think Laguna Beach holds a candle...
...Laguna Beach viewers, of course, argue otherwise. “Football is only entertaining when the Patriots are playing, but Laguna Beach is always entertaining,” says Kate C. Donelan ’08, a Currier resident. She and other Currier devotees of Laguna Beach often rush down to reserve viewing space at around 9:40 p.m. and even then are not guaranteed a TV in the main hall...