AR-News: (Germany) Is German Reality TV Show 'Torture'?

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Is German Reality TV Show 'Torture'? 

Popstar Daniel Küblböck in the “terror aquarium.” 


 
The ratings of a new reality TV show in Germany are climbing as minor 
celebrities are put through daily hair-raising ‘challenges’ in the Australian 
jungle. But as the tests get crueler, criticism is starting to grow.


Germany’s private television channel RTL has hit ratings pay dirt with its 
version of the British and American show “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.” 
Called “Ich Bin Ein Star Holt Mich Hier Raus” in German, the show has dropped 
ten B-list celebrities into a jungle in Australia for 12 days.

Despite being inundated by reality TV in recent years, German viewers are 
flocking to the program, which forces one member of the group to undertake a 
stunt testing their courage each day in order to earn food for all. But after a 
singer of questionable talent was forced to lie in a "cockroach coffin" with 
30,000 of the wriggly creatures and an out-of-work TV host was pecked nearly to 
tears by a band of aggressive ostriches, media watchdogs and other groups are 
beginning to question the show’s lack of moral grounding.

“I’ve really been blown over. These are methods that are reminiscent of 
torture tactics,” Jo Groebel, the director of the European Institute for the Media 
in Düsseldorf, told the Associated Press on Wednesday.





full story;
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_1089240_1_A,00.html




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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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