Comments on: Fox firing at will

By: morescreamingface

morescreamingface — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:53:24 +0000

and then a couple of years down the track we get the 60 Minutes pieces on the failed employees and the fall out and their subsequent shit life
who the fuhc would sign up for this?

T.V appears to be a monster that will eat itself but not before it eats us

captcha: john key does’nt look very happy these days, perhaps a holiday will do the trick

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:42:54 +0000

I'm thinking that after the revolution we can use a similar concept for the televised trial and execution of the bourgeois parasite running dogs. I see them strapped into a modification of the auto-chainsaw suicide device, with the timer replaced by an Internet voting hookup. Farrar, Slater and Prick, for starters. People will be glued to their sets.

By: Philonz

Philonz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:19:20 +0000

Have you seen his approval ratings? Phil Goff would have to save a photogenic child and their pet kitten from a burning building every day for the next month to even get close. I think we’ll have to find another host, perhaps Susan Boyle?

By: Con

Con — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:41:58 +0000

This reminds me of the marathon dance competitions of the ’30s, during the last Great Depression. Desperate unemployed couples would dance continuously for days, eventually dropping from exhaustion, trying to be the last ones awake, and win the cash prize.

This is more of the same isn’t it? Just making money out of the spectacle of the misery of others.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:44:11 +0000

OK. As a TV show it’s…can’t think of the appropriate word. You choose.

But. In a situation of redundancies being made, I’d far rather workers than bosses made the choice. I could see a lot of superfluous mid-management going bye-byes. And then the brown noses and stoogies….

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:41:22 +0000

Crass, yes, but coupled with the severance pay (quantity unknown though) mitigating being fired (somewhat), some might see being seen strutting their stuff on TV as something of an opportunity. I doubt these people are exactly going to be helpless and naive janitors…

By: trademark

trademark — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:38:39 +0000

Now why wasn’t this idea raised at the jobs summit? Think of all the jobs it could create in the culture industry! Think of the ratings – more people in front of TVs (media controversy sells), more advertising being spent… the seamless merging of entertainment and economic stimulation. Fantastic!

And Fox paying a small severance payout – that’s bloody socialism that is. No, send them off with nothing. And then get a camera crew in on the action – possibly a spin-off show, where all the fired people battle through stages of elimination to win the chance to keep their homes, or pay their medical bills, buy next week’s food etc. And to show social conscience, the losers get a Fox-branded cardboard box to live in.

There’s a long way to go to the bottom, but we’re getting closer each day.

By: vto

vto — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:34:03 +0000

Last years election was exactly this no?

Democracy in action on a small scale??

By: Pascal's bookie

Pascal's bookie — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:26:37 +0000

They should do one for the courts. “You be the Judge” summink like that.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:22:18 +0000

Hosting a NZ version could be a great gig for JK after he gets rolled by his own caucus.

By: infused

infused — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:03:54 +0000

It will be sunk before it airs.

By: Tim Ellis

Tim Ellis — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:01:00 +0000

What a crass show.

Only in America.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:57:18 +0000

This is Fox, not Fox news.