> Waaaaay too much of the "reality" is staged for our supposed
> viewing pleasure.
Nothing new there. Brat Camp is nothing more than what Sally Jesse and other talk shows have been doing for years. Hell, Joe "Baseball Bat" Clark turned up waving a bat on several of these shows at least 10 years ago sending unruly teens off to boot camp. Boring.
The difference here is that this is major network stuff, and, surprise surprise, a lot of these people have their own agents, so we can expect them to show up in commercials and everywhere else by fall. The drama, as with any reality show, in enhanced for your convenience. The only thing this shows is that there is still a major stooopid set of Americans that will watch this swill.
> On the subject of ABC, has anyone noticed that the 2nd hour
> of GMA has become nothing more than a marketing platform for
> ABC's reality shows? It is such a strange juxtaposition to
> go from relatively straightforward news/talk content (much
> of which has been quite serious lately) to crap about
> "Dancing With the Stars" or "Brat Camp". The 8:00 hour is
> really dumbed down.
Where have you been?

The morning shows have been whoring the entertainment division product for years. All eighteen viewers of the CBS Morning show are forced to endure castoffs from Survivor, et al. They all do this - one of the many reasons I don't watch any of them.
When these stories run out, it will be back to missing white people.