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Hush Money Seems to Create Success
Reality shows hold contestants tight to gag order Have you ever wondered why viewers never find out the winner of Survivor before the finale airs? Or which girl The Bachelor gave the final rose to? Well, the producers of most reality shows make it financially dreadful for participants of the show to even think about spilling the beans before the ending occurs. Reality shows, especially those of a competitive nature, tend to enforce a contractual gag order that can penalize participants anywhere from $5 to $10 million dollars if they offer a spoiler alert to anyone. Carlos Lucas, a
Reality TV Shows Today: Entertaining or Irritating
This is about African American women in reality TV, their impact, their challenges, and how the black community reacts to it. The slideshow is one aspect of the topic I plan to explore as I develop this project. [View the story "Black Women in Pursuit of Reality" on Storify] As you can see, people are definitely talking about this show as well as reality TV as a whole. But, I would like to know what you think. Think about reality TV in general, not just Love & Hip Hop. Are you entertaining by all of the drama and women
Music, Media, Money and Respect
Jay-Z struggles to earn his 1% of respect Shawn Carter, more widely known as Jay-Z, is not just an Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Hip-Hop superstar. He’s also part of the economically well off that with the creation of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ has been recently referred to as “The 1%”. In a recent interview with CNNMONEY about his event for the Shawn Carter Foundation, the music mogul stated, “I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes if it went to the things that really mattered”, as asked about his support for the nationwide OWS demonstration. He then questioned the federal governments bookkeeping habits by
The B-word is a bad word
It will get you in trouble every time! ?uestlove, the beloved drummer and band leader of The Roots recently put himself in the line of fire when he chose the wrong walk-on song to help introduce Michelle Bachmann on stage of the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show. The Roots are the resident band that plays nightly on the show. The New York Post reported today that ?uestlove has now been instructed to have his music choices pre-approved by three NBC officials before the band can perform them. The article also leads readers to believe that the song was pre-planned,
ART OUTSIDE
Public Space Is NYC’s Theatre In New York, the fall brings a very different type of festival. It’s a celebration of the arts, but it’s not in the normal realm of where most artwork is admired. I discovered “AIOP – Art in Odd Places”, and it took me all around 14th Street and Union Square to find it. Why was it so hard you ask? Because it’s on the street amongst the everyday downtown environment. It’s about putting the abstract, the contemporary, the modern and the just plain unusual out in plain view to be reviewed by anyone and everyone.
