Opinion: Reality Show Distorts Charity
December 10, 2008
Fox’s miniseries, Secret Millionaire — in which wealthy people mix anonymously with the underprivileged people they seek to help — is a distasteful misrepresentation of charity, argues The Boston Globe’s television critic, Matthew Gilbert.
“Making a show of charity pushes it into that reality-TV realm of artificiality — the forced emotions, the swelling strings, the ever-present cameras,” he writes. “Giving should be natural; ‘Secret Millionaire’ is contrived.”
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