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I was sitting at home on night and I was watching a documentary called BodyShock which looked at people all over the world with shocking body problems and I was thinking this is very interesting put how embarassing and sad to see these people been put on TV to millions of people in the counrty.
What's your thought on Documentaries?

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Originally posted by Howell123
I was sitting at home on night and I was watching a documentary called BodyShock which looked at people all over the world with shocking body problems and I was thinking this is very interesting put how embarassing and sad to see these people been put on TV to millions of people in the counrty.
What's your thought on Documentaries?
Thats certainly a two-edged sword, on the one hand, there is the
sensationalist/shock value that will always attract a certain sick type
to abnormalities, you see that at circuses. Then there is the fact that
there are some who would give money to research organizations but did not know about such a problem, whatever it is. So TV is like anything else in media, you have to accept the commercialism inherent in the medium if real good can come it also.