'The Apprenctice' TV show, ultimate corp./bus. competition promo. Whoa

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~ According to Wiki, 'The Apprentice' has been running for 15 seasons, no wonder things are the way they are in this country. See what I get for never watching the show or commercial TV except for news, films and some culture programs. I can't be alone in remembering a time when other sectors of the economy and society were valued and reflected in television and media programming like education, science, social services, medicine, arts, culture and philanthropy along with industry and entertainment. It's a amazing, almost like a TV Hunger Games. ~




- Wiki, The Apprentice (American TV series), From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In Wiki, Click TV Series'

The Celebrity Apprentice Website: The Apprentice is an American reality television program that judges the business skills of a group of contestants. It has run in various formats across fifteen seasons since January 2004 on NBC, with the most recent season having run in 2015.

The Apprentice was created by British-born American television producer Mark Burnett.[1] Billed as "The Ultimate Job Interview," the show features 14-18 business people who compete over the course of a season, with usually one contestant eliminated per episode. Contestants are split into two "corporations" (teams), with one member from each volunteering as a project manager on each new task. The corporations complete business-related tasks such as selling products, raising money for charity, or creating an advertising campaign, with one corporation selected as the winner based on objective measures and subjective opinions of the host and his advisors who monitor the teams' performance on tasks.

The losing corporation attends a boardroom meeting with the show's host and their advisors to break down why they lost and determine who contributed the least to the team. Episodes ended with the host eliminating one contestant from the competition, with the words "You're fired!"

Seven of the show's seasons featured aspiring, but otherwise unknown, businesspersons who would vie for the show's prize, a one-year $250,000 starting contract to promote one of Donald Trump's properties. There have also been eight seasons of The Celebrity Apprentice since 2008. In this format, several celebrities would participate to win money for their chosen charities, with the final prize being a large donation to the celebrity's charity and the title of "Apprentice". A reboot of this format, The New Celebrity Apprentice, aired in January 2017. The U.S. series originated a franchise of international television shows collectively known as The Apprentice, which has had over 20 local versions.

Donald Trump was the show's host for the first fourteen seasons, with the show affording him popularity that contributed to his rise to the presidency of the United States...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series)

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1. There are also...

There are also numerous references to him and appearances in movies and other media from the past. He was forging the character he plays for a long time and had people admiring him for being such a "big success" and icon of business.

Now, we see how a facade of a con man really works. I hope more people learn from this for many reasons and in personal and public matters. Confidence men are very good at the thing they do best and that is: put on a convincing act, a show, a game.

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3. As said, until I looked into it more I never realized the influence

this show and he had-- I saw a few minutes of it while channel surfing years ago but that's all. It's incredible how impressionable and gullible some people are. Truly concerning and it is a 'con,' a 'show.' Now I also have a better understanding of the workings and effects of this kind of personality on far too many- like the country grifter, con man Andy Griffith played in 'A Face In The Crowd.' Also, how so much of the interaction and communication is oral, with very little written down in print. As well, I'm reminded of an ex relative who used to say before heading out, usually to work- 'I'm putting on my 'game face.' Truly!

Dramatic role in A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Griffith with Lee Remick (l) and Patricia Neal (r) on the set of A Face in the Crowd (1957)
In 1957, Griffith made his film début starring in the film A Face in the Crowd. Although he plays a "country boy," this country boy is manipulative and power-hungry, a drifter who becomes a television host and uses his show as a gateway to political power. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg and co-stars Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa, and Lee Remick (in her film début as well)...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Griffith

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4. It was prep and promo for the next 'career move.' The office

of the US Presidency is just another reality gig. Have Americans learned anything yet, the very hard way. I hope so.

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7. I would also hope that.

To me, stripping that facade away is essential to defeating him, one way or another.

It has been my contention that few people are immune to his game, be it love him or despise him, he's playing marks here.

It is really a game of the Naked Emperor Game of Thrones where he is naked, but the people are not allowed to see or say that.

When we get to a more collective, OH! that's been his game and show all along, then the energy can go from playing to his character and getting to the real "thing", (whatever unspeakable horror or miserable, frightened child) that is underneath the hood.

It's The Spectacle of it, the Simulation that is the real problem here and Trump is just exploiting that to the point where it should be the lesson that America learns.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Mark Burnett needs to be hounded.

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5. Really, but he's made tons off this and 'Survivor'

from what I just read. Maybe we'll learn something from all this..but what a price.

[LiberalFighter]

6. I don't watch Survivor anymore.