--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
Warning: This idea has been copyrighted, and my agent is
currently shopping it around town in L.A. We're actually
hoping that FOX tries to rip us off and do its version of
the show itself, because we'll sue their asses off.
Note: My agent and his attorneys have advised me to state
for the record that this idea was *not* inspired by the
way that former TM teachers who reveal embarrassing truths
about the TM movement and its secrets are treated on the
Internet by that group's ardent supporters and apologists.
Any resemblance between this process and the proposed idea
for a TV series is coincidental and unintentional, if for
no other reason than because no one has yet invented a way
to throw actual rocks on Internet forums.
Here's the pitch: Each week the show invites as a guest
a famous (or, given the actual nature of the show, infamous)
whistleblower to be the victim de la semaine. This whistle-
blower will have achieved recent notoriety by revealing
either corporate or guvmint secrets, misdeeds, illegalities,
or corruption by making them public, either directly to the
media or by providing the documentation of these deeds
to portals such as WikiLeaks.
The actual facts revealed by the whistleblowers will never
be presented in the show itself; only a carefully-digested
and rewritten version of what they revealed will be presented,
crafted and spun to give the appearance of malice afore-
thought and evil intentions on the part of the whistleblower.
Then representatives of the corporation or guvmint agency
will be invited to serve on the panel. Members of the
mainstream media may also be included, assuming they have
been pre-screened to take the right side in what follows.
The whistleblowers are tied to a large stake in the center
of the stage, bound and gagged (as is appropriate for
criminals such as they are). The panel stands in a semi-
circle around them and one after another they get their
opportunity to vilify the whistleblower, call them names,
and discredit them in any way possible. When they run out
of things to say or their allotted persecution time
runs out and the buzzer sounds, they get to hurl a large
rock at the whistleblower. This process goes on until
the whistleblower is dead.
Each episode ends with a stern lecture on how whistleblowing
is bad, and a reminder to those who might be tempted to
perform it that public stoning is what awaits them if they
try. The moderator (who is anything *but* moderate) delivers
a teaser for next week's episode, naming the next victim
and urging the audience to write in their suggestions for
what size rocks should be thrown at them.
Fade to the commercials, thoughtfully provided by the very
corporations or guvment entities this week's whistleblower
has damaged by lying about them.
