Today the idea of a mad loner silently avoiding attention seems like a quaint throwback.
You might think that in this country the reality show has taken over but the recent events over balloon boy across the water show we are lagging behind our American brothers.
As James Poiewiozig writes in Time Magazine
on Oct. 15, America spent an afternoon being literally distracted by a shiny object, watching news choppers chase a silver balloon that we were told carried a presumably terrified 6-year-old boy. When we learned during the coverage that Falcon Heene's family had twice appeared on ABC's Wife Swap, who didn't have the same thought? That if Falcon's parents would open their family life for a reality show, then they might also have planned ... but they wouldn't have, right?
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