Why I won't be spending much time with the house

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Date: 06 June 2008 07:07:45

So Big Brother is back for it's 9th series. As Third Party was watching this years "contestants" go in I felt v. sad. It's the freak show mentality gone mad and I am worried yet again they are turning disability into "entertainment".

I was really angry that the first "task" seems to be relys on encouraging infidelity and that "entertainment" is to be gleaned from making people complicit in adultery and deciet. The fact they were putting a self-admitted bully in the house to help stir it up was also really disturbing, as is the fact yet again they appear to be "playing with racism" through the mix they have put in the house.

This is a tv show which aims itself at young people, and one has to worry if these are the values we are happy to allow them to see. I think I am going to have to sit down with Third Party and have a chat about the issues involved. I am not going to ban her from watching but I am going to explain why I don't think it is appropriate viewing.