I hate these "blind item" thingies because I never know if they're blind because we actually can't find out who they're about or because the writer is just keeping it from us to be a dick. Anyway, I came across this one this morning on Gatecrasher that I thought was interesting:
"Which reality-show clogged network had to change it's casting procedures after a racist internal policy was leaked? Producers had an informal ban on considering cast members who were 'too black.' They claimed it was because darker skin tones were hard to pick up on camera."
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable policy for a perfectly reasonable, respectable industry that in no way exploits the individuals participating in it. Ha, who am I kidding? They probably have a policy against anyone with an IQ over 85 too because such individuals are reluctant to take their clothes off/perform intimate acts with strippers on camera. They've figured out by now that the best reality show candidates are ignorant and self-involved--maybe with a side of Daddy Issues thrown in for good measure. The only real dilemma the networks are presented with as a result of this policy is how to perpetuate racial stereotypes when they can't use black people. How can they portray the token angry black man they hold so dear to their programming? Or the emotionally unstable black ho/walking video vixen? Thank God they've got creative types working over there at MTV and VH1...I'm sure they'll think of something.
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