Big Brother: The Reality Of Big Brother Bites! Commentary by Cindy Rutolo Dietrich September 21, 2007
CBS, your reality's a lie. Give me a little truth cause your reality
bites.
You edit, and mold.
You hide. You don't scold.
You reward abuse.
It was almost show time. It would be the last show of the BB8 season. I
couldn't think of one single reason why either of the Donatos should
win. But the reality was that the Donatos would win because CBS's
reality bites.
I was originally a big Daniele and ED Donato fan. But then ED became
increasingly verbally abusive. No one was safe except for his daughter.
By the end of the season, it was hard to tell which of the two enjoyed
talking about others more.
(ED) Evel Dick and Daniele Donato have been vicious, heartless, and
cruel. Watching them win over a half a million dollars, felt like a
validation of their abuse. Plus, in the end ED emerged, as I predicted,
a new reality TV star.
Bravo, CBS, you should be so proud.
NOT
You've created two more Reality TV monsters.
Considering the controversies concerning inappropriate speech, you'd
think CBS would have at least tried to reign in the foul mouthed star of
their reality show. Instead, they condoned his actions by editing them
out and rewarding him instead with fame, money and glory. Online
readers and viewers know the true story. Big Brother simply turned a
blind eye to the truth. They seemed to have had a whole 'nother set of
rules for the two evil stars of their show.
That's just one of the many reasons why their reality bites. Here's
another: Not one question.
Julie Chen did not ask ED one single question about the train wreck
things he said to everyone else in the Big Brother House except to his
darling daughter, Daniele. She did not ask ED to validate, or explain
one single thing that he did to 'win.'
I don't get it!
Houseguests in the past were always forced to face clips of their most
embarrassing, or humiliating moments in the house.
Not the Donatos.
They're shown no beeped out clips of ED's obscenity laced, vicious,
verbal attacks.
No clips of him planning his race baiting strategy, to throw off Jameka
and Zack.
Neither of them are asked to explain even one single, horrible thing
they've said about Jen, Kail, Dustin, Amber, Zack and everyone else.
I don't get it!
Why not? It's a complete departure from the past. Why use such a
volatile, ticking bomb and not feature, or confront him with the very
things that kept people riveted, and furious, and upset all season?
It's as if they decided that the only interesting, or important thing
about this Father/Daughter Duo, was their manipulated, faux, forced
reunion.
Is there a legal reason for this baffling cover-up? I just want to know
why? Why weren't they confronted, or even asked to explain anything?
Their tactics were not even mentioned on the Early Show. The brief clips
that they did show - feature only the brief moments when ED was not
verbally lashing out against Zack, with his daughter cheering him on.
It was if none of that happened. Or, if it did, none of it mattered. It
didn't matter how they got there. Nor what they did to win. They only
thing that seems to matter is that they're together again. And even that
is a lie.
I think CBS is just so proud that they managed to manipulate everyone.
They wanted this 'allegedly' estranged Father and Daughter to reunite on
their show, and win the money and all the glory.
Cindy Rutolo Dietrich is an entertainment writer, reviewer, rock journalist, poet, hotel reviewer, pianist, singer, songwriting artist from Pennsylvania.
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