{"id":14099,"date":"2004-06-24T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/reality-tv-hits-a-new-low\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T16:42:00","slug":"reality-tv-hits-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/reality-tv-hits-a-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV Hits A New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what can only be described as a horrible combination of <i>American Idol<\/i> and the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0202470\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Rock Star<\/i><\/a> (great movie, by the way), CBS is set to air a Mark Burnett <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=597&amp;e=2&amp;u=\/nm\/television_inxs_dc\" target=\"_blank\">reality TV show in which musicians compete to become the new lead singer for INXS<\/a>.  After a &ldquo;multicontinent search,&rdquo; &ldquo;the winner will embark on a worldwide concert tour with INXS and sing on the group&rsquo;s next album.&rdquo;  This just blows.  Michael Hutchence must be rolling over in his grave&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108809536881576910?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what can only be described as a horrible combination of American Idol and the movie Rock Star (great movie, by the way), CBS is set to air a Mark Burnett reality TV show in which musicians compete to become the new lead singer for INXS. After a &ldquo;multicontinent search,&rdquo; &ldquo;the winner will embark on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/reality-tv-hits-a-new-low\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reality TV Hits A New Low&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}