I was appalled to see a link to Razor TV's renewed interview with Ris Low, the fallen Queen convicted of fraud and put on probation. If it wasn't enough of an episode from the start, Razor picked up from where they left off last: what happens now.
A myriad of questions were asked, seemingly directed to give Ris a chance to clarify and offer explanations to her incidences within the public eye. When it started off with questioning her capabilities, it was painful to watch a teenage girl admitting to her faults and mental conditions at such close-up personal levels.
Hundreds of comments that were divided with unease over if she was honest, or dishonest with her new revelations were astounding. Public opinions were either favorably empathic, or ridiculously doubtful, with barely a handful that showed even a small hint of neutrality.
Bashing her or patting her on the back was the order of the day.
However, upon closer scrutiny of the videos, the edit was favoring sensational news reporting, intended to incite emotional responses that have seamlessly led to the successful creation of the clips in the first place.
I was empathic towards the harshness of the media spotlight which she has suffered - likewise, I was conned into even completing the entire set of clips.
Evidently, not only was Ris led to answering questions with "sensational" answers that she was clueless about, the various edits made by the producers at Razor tightened the dramatics of the interview overall. What can be said, thus, is that the public had been led, and continues to be led into emotional opinions that in turn, creates a new wave of success for Razor TV.
Given our current state of immaturity towards the future - in various aspects of our everyday lives that is - the media continues to paint the town red for the sake of material gains, downright diminishing careful, mature, and even thoughtful assessments of events.
As our media continues to shape the future, I fear one day, we may all be thrown into the absurdity of bullish, even nonsensical answers, to the simplest question: who are you?
On hindsight, although Ris was given a chance to speak at her pace and air her thoughts, she was led by the nose to provide tacky answers enough to, in turn, lead the viewers by their noses to believe whatever Razor wants them to believe.
Who's the real loser now? The viewers.
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