{"id":9866,"date":"2010-04-07T00:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T07:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9866"},"modified":"2010-04-07T00:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T07:19:38","slug":"82-of-fake-tv-show-contestents-are-willing-to-commit-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9866","title":{"rendered":"82% of Fake TV Show Contestents are Willing To Commit Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The CBC reports <\/a>on a French documentary, recreating the famous Milgram experiment<\/a> as reality TV:<\/p>\n

The fake game show, called Le jeu de la mort<\/em> (The Game of Death), features a glamorous hostess and a studio audience who eggs contestants on with cries of “punishment.”<\/p>\n

The documentary showed that 82 per cent of participants were willing to pull the levers that inflicted a shock on their opponents. […]<\/p>\n

The participants, who did not know the game show was fake, were shown their rivals writhing in pain. They are also told that the voltage of the shocks increased each time they pulled the lever.<\/p>\n

Yet in the game-show setting, only 18 per cent of participants refused the request of a host to pull the lever, said filmmaker Christophe Nick.<\/p>\n

“They are not equipped to disobey,” he told AFP. “They don’t want to do it, they try to convince the authority figure that they should stop, but they don’t manage to.”[…]<\/p>\n

After filming, one of the contestants said that taking part had helped her to understand why her own Jewish grandparents had been tortured by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

“Since I was a little girl, I have always asked myself why the Nazis did it and how they could obey such orders? And then there I was, obeying them myself,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was worried about the contestant, but at the same time, I was afraid to spoil the program.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Glenn Greenwald comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I just watched an amazing discussion of this French experiment on Fox News. The Fox anchors — Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum — were shocked and outraged that these French people could be induced by the power of television to embrace torture.<\/p>\n

Speaking as employees of the corporation that produced the highly influential, torture-glorifying 24, and on the channel that has churned out years worth of pro-torture “news” advocacy, the anchors were particularly astonished that television could play such a powerful role in influencing people’s views and getting them to acquiesce to such heinous acts. Ultimately, they speculated that perhaps it was something unique about the character and psychology of the French that made them so susceptible to external influences and so willing to submit to amoral authority, just like many of them submitted to and even supported the Nazis, they explained. I kept waiting for them to make the connection to America’s torture policies and Fox’s support for it — if only to explain to their own game show participants at home Fox News viewers why that was totally different — but it really seemed the connection just never occurred to them. They just prattled away — shocked, horrified and blissfully un-self-aware — about the evils of torture and mindless submission to authority and the role television plays in all of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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