FUX is sick! Making a reality show where someone gets laid off from their job in the end!

[Lucky Luciano]

Fox to make reality TV show out of company layoffs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_en_tv/tv_fox_layoff_show

NEW YORK – The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy. An upcoming series titled, "Someone's Gotta Go," lets employees of a small business decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off.

Fox says it has no air date yet for the series, which is being developed by the company behind "Big Brother" and "Deal or No Deal." Each week, a different company lays off an employee.

Fox also wouldn't reveal the show's host, which it says is a business consultant who will offer advice to participating companies.

[Marrah_G]

1. WTF???????

[billyoc]

2. Not JUST where somebody gets laid off, but where the workers have to decide who gets laid off.

This is the highest form of class warfare.

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half" -- Jay Gould, 1896

[Tim01]

3. This is fucked up. This kind of pisses me off.

[Occam Bandage]

4. That's sick, and reeks of class warfare. After all,

if someone has a hand in a layoff, his guilt makes him ashamed to protest it afterwards--and his fear that he might be next continues to keep him in line.

[TahitiNut]

5. And when the laid-off person goes "postal" their ratings will SOAR.

:puke:

[YOY]

6. I really want a show called "Who wants to lynch a billionaire?"

n/t

[Skidmore]

7. Organize a twitter/myface campaign or any other type of

campaign to boycott this channel because of this program. Seeking to profit from people's misery, aiding and abetting corporate greed. Dancing on graves.

Damn this channel is sick. I have it blocked on my television, in all iterations.

[Skidmore]

8. Self-delete--dupe

[nxylas]

9. Quite apart from the ethics of it, it's also seriously tone-deaf

Murdoch is an evil genius when it comes to convincing the lumpen proletariat that his interests coincide with theirs, but on this occasion, I think that he and his minions have seriously misjudged the mood of the nation. His usual trick, learned from Reagan, is to redirect the anger that should be aimed at those at the top of the heap towards those at the bottom of the heap ("the welfare queen in her Cadillac"). This will humanize the newly unemployed and I reckon more audiences will identify with the person who gets laid off than with the business owner who fires them. It's stoking class warfare all right, but not in the way that Murdoch intends.

[Initech]

10. That is some sick shit.

[bluestateguy]

11. Very unethical

Though that's what reality TV mostly is, unethical.

We need to get back to real professional television programming again. No more cheap ass reality TV where every Joe the Plumber gets their 15 minutes of fame.

Is that elitist? Your damn right it is.

[Canuckistanian]

12. I think the first person to get laid off should sue

And they would probably have a good case for unfair dismissal.

The only thing this program would show is petty office politics.

That someone should lose their job to this is outrageous. Even if they signed a waiver, you can bet your ass it was signed under duress.