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...survival skills to be valued?After missing the bandwagon on the first entrees into reality TV, Fox vowed a year ago to move away from “shockumentaries” like “When Animals Attack” and “World’s Scariest Police Shootouts.” In order to stay competitive, each time a new reality show came out, Fox tried to raise the bar of shock value. While “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” offered a look into a person’s thought process...
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...city's landmark park. Some victims said police didn't take them seriously when alerted that evening; some cops said their hands were tied by pols who wanted to avoid at all costs another racial incident sparked by the mostly white force. And no one wanted to face the scariest implication--that the city could again become the dangerous place it was 11 years ago, when the gang rape of a jogger gave Central Park its first "wilding" headlines...
When I left Washington, D.C., for Washington State four years ago, a friend at Justice gave me a DOJ baseball cap as a joke. I wore it last Halloween, calling it the scariest costume I could think of. But many people didn't think that was very funny. The sense of grievance was too raw. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein is actually a friend of mine. (He's not the one who gave me the hat.) When I tell people this, they are sometimes amazed--not at my brazen name dropping or at the idea that I once traveled...
...course, that parallel may not be coincidental; the Fox network, which aired the ill-fated episode of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" is known for its penchant for "reality-based programming," including titles like "When Good Pets Go Bad" and the car wreck-rich "World's Scariest Police Videos." Now, in the wake of creepy allegations about Rockwell and claims of temporary insanity by his erstwhile bride, Fox chairman Sandy Grushow has made a sweeping and dubious pronouncement: The network will no longer broadcast "exploitative material...