Fox to Make Reality Show Out of Layoffs

[Ash]

This is just awful.
The television executives at Fox have stooped to an all-time low with this one.   

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30108232/

Any thoughts?

[Jack]

Darnell said he wasn't concerned about the emotional fallout in a workplace after "Someone's Gotta Go," where an employee might be left to work with a colleague they'd just said on national television should be fired.

"Sounds like good reality television,"

Sounds utterly pathetic to me, but I guess it's what the public is drooling for.

"Ooh, will we get to see former friends and coworkers screaming at each other and hating each other?  Will we get to see someone despondent and depressed because they were laid off, maybe even turning to alcohol?  Oh goody goody, I'll get the popcorn!!!"

[Fausto]

As reprehensible as it is, people will watch it, and for pretty much the same reason they watch any other reality show: schadenfreude.   

[Mr. DS]

Only from Fox would an idea like this arrive...

[Joe the Destroyer]

God, they'll make a TV show out of anything these days.  I would hate to have seen them during WWII.  Or the Great Plague.