Steven Slater, the flight attendant who slid from an airplane to fame last week, now employs the services of one of Hollywood's top public relations representatives.Everyone who didn't see this coming, please raise your hand. I'll be over shortly with shares of the Brooklyn Bridge you can purchase for the low, low price of $29.95. I wonder if this might have even been part of Slater's plan all along - knowing America's penchant for the shocking and the stupid, he might have gambled that the infamy gained by such an exit from the world of air stewarding would be sufficient to propel him to such lofty ranks of fame as "Snooki"...Howard Bragman, Chairman of media and public relations agency Fifteen Minutes, confirmed to CNN that he is now representing Slater and will help him assess offers to appear in proposed television programs inspired by Slater's dramatic exit from a JetBlue plane at New York's Kennedy Airport after he cursed a passenger over the public address system and deployed the emergency slide.
This frightens the hell out of me for one simple reason: Where does it end? I'm afraid we're going to see ever-increasing amounts of dumbassery achieved in the race for fame as more and more people see Slater's success and rush to emulate it. We're going to see people injuring themselves in spectacular ways in poorly-thought out ways to top his slide to fame. Twenty years ago we had "America's Funniest Home Videos", where the person who injured or humiliated themselves the most on national TV would be put in the running for a $10K prize. Now we hand them fifty times that for a "reality" show based on nothing more than their willingness to make a jackass out of themselves.
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" indeed.
That is all.
3 comments:
Jay, you want to know where this leads? I'll tell you.
ASS! The Movie!
That's where it leads. It's the end of western civilization as we know it.
I'm still not entirely sure who this "Snooki" person is (what kind of name is that anyway) except that she appears to be orange in the few pictures I've seen.
Heh. I'll just keep avoiding these 'people', and eventually they'll all die off. It's not like they ever come to 'flyover country' here, anyway. What's the problem?
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