7. Tv Reality Shows go too far (?)

Organ donation show was a joke
The kidney donor was an actress

Nowadays there are a lot of (maybe even too much) reality Tv shows. The more the audience of these shows increases the more the creativity of its producers expands. Families are swaping wives, young people are racing against each other to become the Paris Hilton!'s new “BFF”, terminally ill people are competing for a chance to live. Yes, the creativity of reality show producers knows no bounds.
In the Dutch Reality Tv Show called “De grote Donot – Show” a woman (Lisa) who suffers from brain tumor declared that she wants to donate her kidney. The Show was constructed just like the other Reality shows: Short films and interviews showed the lifes of the candidates who were hoping to be the one who gets the kidney. The candidates had to answer questions about their lifes and problem. The audience was encouraged to help Lisa by voting to decide which one of the candidates should get the kidney, in short which one of the candidates deserves to live.
The uncovery that the show was not real was made by the moderator just at the moment when Lisa had to say who is going to get the kidney. Lisa had no brain tumor and there was no kidney to be donated but the three candidates were real patients waiting for organ donations.
The fake organ donation Tv show divided the audience into two groups: On the one hand people were supporting the show which made a fool of millions of television viewers on the other hand there were some arguing that there should immediately be set some limits regarding the reality show industry. “We won't give a kidney in this show, this goes too far, even for us” said the moderator of the show. According to Ronald Plasterk the show was an intelligent way to direct the audience's attention to the failing of organ donation in the Netherlands.
I think it is a good example to show everybody that the reality show industry has to be somehow limited.