@******lynda****** wrote:
Yet millions tune in to watch Gordon Ramsay abuse contestants on Hells Kitchen and others. Millions tune in to Big Brother and other 'reality ' shows hoping for displays of bad behaviour...they certainly don't watch to see people happily playing monopoly...they want controversy and personality clashes. Comedians have built careers on being not politically correct. 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quite so!  "Humiliation" TV is apparently fine.  Participants can be picked on and derided and that is seen as fine.  No one cares whether any lasting harm is being done to sensitive individuals.  And press reporting is as bad.  How many rise to fame only to be kicked down a few months later by tabloid speculation about private lives, etc.