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Pennies for Your Thoughts

What Fox TV's public confessional reveals.

Todd Hertz | posted 6/10/2008 08:55AM

Before appearing on Fox's popular The Moment of Truth (Tuesdays, 8/7c), contestants are asked 50 increasingly personal questions while hooked to a polygraph machine. Then, on camera, they field the same ...

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Melissa Blackson

Posted: June 22, 2008 8:58 PM


Like rich, I watched this show...but only ONCE. As the questions got increasingly personal, I became increasingly uncomfortable. Some things are not to be discussed in front of a "live studio audience". There has to be a limit on what we find entertaining. Other people's realities have become our fantasies and the focus of our TV viewing. It's really sad when you think about it.

Karl	Posted: June 18, 2008 10:53 AM


Does Mr. Hertz have a point to make? Is this just an exercise in open-ended questions? Who are the "we" that Mr. Hertz refers to in the fourth paragraph? What does Mr. Hertz think the FOX show reveals?

Ray	Posted: June 17, 2008 12:40 AM

I believe this kind of a show makes the world so sick to live in. It just tells me what money can do: greediest you become. We become servant to money rather than mastering money. Secondly, when greed comes in to our system, we become easy victims of those who wanted to make more money out of their money. Thirdly, it just show how sick and filthy our mind is. I sat down to see it for a while when I was surfing for some program. I can't stand listening to the questions. It was so degrading to the person concern because of the money; and to those who listen because it show exactly what we are. We want to see how others fall flat on their face.

Billy Reed

Posted: June 15, 2008 12:43 PM

I gave up smoking and have never felt better! I gave up TV and have never "thought" better! TV is a waste of time and brain cells. I know of no better way to improve a home or city or country in the 21st century than to turn off your television. A member of our church does not allow television in his home. He is of modest means. He has 2 kids. One wants to be a doctor, one wants to be a lawyer. Kill your TV! Pick up your Bible and read.

David

Posted: June 15, 2008 12:10 AM


There is hardly a problem in the world that can't be eliminated if there are NO BUYERS!! As long as there is a buyer, there will be a supplier. i.e. Want to eliminate prostitution? Take men off the streets! Drugs? Degrading movies and tv? Stop buying!

Cathy

Posted: June 13, 2008 4:24 PM

Jesus tells us: John 15:19 19 If ye were of the world , the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world , but I have chosen you out of the world , therefore the world hateth you. Rev 18:3-6 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her , my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 1 John 4:4-6 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: the

Emily

Posted: June 11, 2008 3:28 AM


Interesting how other commenters are defending Fox...I appreciated the article as I have noted increasingly sensational reality shows originating and concentrating on Fox over the last few years. It is just interesting as Fox at other times seems to relish in taking on the conservative mantle.

Anna	Posted: June 11, 2008 1:16 AM

Well, well, well. I thought I was the only one who has noticed the uglyness of t.v. with its writing based in Hollywood. Family primetime shows have two grown men with a young boy hanging around while they have sex and sex talk (the kid now joins in). Another show has a 5 year old stand there on stage while the family father calls him a swear word name, married people meet someone new and within seconds they're in bed. Women kiss each other and men kiss each other and their conversations are sick. All "Family shows". I think Hollywood thinks the general public wants this creapy stuff or wants us to think we want it. I think the writers have no more ideas, no more plotline, no more clean jokes, they're dead, they can't write but continue to collect that check. Or they have no idea how to write intriguing, exciting, meaningful, plotfilled, culturally rich, stories. Or, they have no concept of what culture American generations lived and live now. Well, that's dead Hollywood for you.

Victor

Posted: June 10, 2008 9:21 PM


Television today (at least in the United States) for the most part is obviously "inspired" by Satan. It is sickening to look at the things that young people are being fed today by the "idiot box"!

ann	Posted: June 10, 2008 5:14 PM


Rich, Don't forget that Mr. Murdoch also owns Zondervan-- Christian publishing house.

John G.

Posted: June 10, 2008 2:48 PM


And what about CBS's new shows such as SWINGTOWN (which encourages wife-swapping) and DEXTER (where the hero is a serial killer)? "The love of money is the root of all evil." All the major networks show mostly unrelenting trash. As the writer implies, this is ancient Roman society reborn. May Jesus come soon!

Mark	Posted: June 10, 2008 1:39 PM


Don't make this all about Fox. This doesn't have as much to do with Fox as it does the mental and moral midgets who enjoy such rubbish, thereby pushing up ratings. If other networks could get the ratings they'd sure do it (and worse).

Jeff	Posted: June 10, 2008 1:28 PM


FOX - always fair and balanced.

Rich of NYC

Posted: June 10, 2008 10:34 AM

I watched this show as my wife stole the remote. She made me sit through it and the following week. By the third time, I found myself a bit enveloped in the “juicy” details and then left to read a book. I thought about the show for a while. I try to be a person of honor, good character, and righteous. I scold my wife when she spills office gossip, I say hello to neighbors who never acknowledge me (I break them eventually), etc. It’s what my dad taught me, be the Shepard. But this show reeks of ol fashion garbage. I hear people at work talk of it as it were the greatest show and it makes me sick. We are humans bound by our flesh and desires. Who hasn’t been attracted to their spouse’s sister if only for a moment, and etc. Some things are better left unsaid and the questions are so open that they apply to many. But again, it’s Fox so what do you expect. Even their news is biased. Rupert Murdoch also runs the post… boy, what a quality paper in NY (sarcasm alert!). It’s shows and thinking

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