Word: voyeur
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However, German politicians have raised questions about the moral tone of these voyeur shows. They have called for a ban of "Big Brother," saying it violates media laws protecting human dignity. Bavarian official Erwin Huber calls the show "a new dimension in sensationalism... and voyeurism." But the laws' vagueness have prevented any action against the show, which has been very successful for the RTL II network, which had previously focused its programming on American reruns and soft-core pornography...
...Leslie Moonves admits that a psychologist friend has encouraged him not to go through with these voyeur shows. While he has not pulled the shows from the summer lineup, he has ordered additional screenings of potential contestants. Applicants must endure a battery of psychological and physical endurance tests, but who can really predict what will happen under conditions that are, to say the least, adverse? The German TV execs acknowledged this, and set up a "safe room" in their "Big Brother" house, where the contestants can meet with a psychologist without the pressure of the cameras and microphones...
When initial searches on "Tolstoy," "Microsoft" and "love" proved fruitless, I decided to browse through the dozen or so category listings instead. But as I bounced from "education" to "entertainment" to "spirituality," I simply couldn't find a conversation that piqued my interest, except as a voyeur. Perhaps that's why of the 16 people listed in the fun-peers.30s section, only two were actually typing, including someone with the handle BOD2DIE4, who wrote, "No one is talking to me," and someone called YORKIETHE1ST, who asked, "Is everyone asleep in here?" Then I discovered that while Chatscan scours...
...basic instincts. Watch a film in a large theater, and the experience will be doubly charged, not by the size of the screen but by the energy of the audience. Coliseums, football stadiums, rock concerts--to be a part of the action, as opposed to just being a voyeur, is as old as the ritual of performance. Yet bigger does not necessarily mean better. Off-Broadway theater is doing very well right now, and the physical intimacy of the live event has a lot to do with its success. Feeling that your presence affects the event may become more...