"Unan1mous"

Has reality television hit a new low point? Well, it would appear that way due to the new Fox reality show airing later tonight, Unan1mous. According to Hal Boedeker, a Sentinel Television Critic,posted on March 22, 2006, this new reality show takes nine strangers, puts them in "hot, stuffy conditions" where they must all unanimously decide which one will walk away with the 1.5 million dollars. The catch is that the player's secrets are revealed which makes people not want to pick them because one player has "lied about bankruptcy" while another player has "spent time in a psychiatric center". The longer it takes the players to decide who will receive the money, the money starts dwindling away with each minute it takes them to decide. Finally, no one can decide that they just want to give up and leave because if they do, then the money will automatically be split in half. After reading the article and viewing commercials for this new reality show, I felt that it was a waste of time to put such a show on the air. The show is centered around people arguing with eachother, lying, and somehow trying to decide which one person deserves the money the most. Personally, I think that the people on this reality show probably don't deserve the money more than people who are battling with such things as serious medical conditions or homelessness. This money would be better spent trying to aide medical researchers in trying to improve medicine or putting it towards our country's education department to improve schools for children. So, maybe reality television has hit a new low with deciding to give someone a load of money for doing nothing except argue with eight other people in an enclosed room.