Comments on: On memoirs, reality TV, truth, exploitation, and “privacy as the new currency” http://frandorf.com/?p=138 Fran Dorf's "Write to Heal," Coping with Loss, Novels, and Blog on Life, Grief, Culture, Art, and More Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Meryl Dorf http://frandorf.com/?p=138#comment-207 Meryl Dorf Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:19:44 +0000 http://frandorf.com/?p=138#comment-207 further "irony" is that the reason someone would exploit their children is such a way, is because the networks are showing the cheap reality shows on TV to save cost in programming and production, isn't it? The art involved in creating dramas, the work offered to writers, set designers, production crews and REAL actors is being lost. People are struggling for jobs, for money and ways to earn it. Real craft and art is disappearing, and along with it goes the desire for, and appreciation of it. We are being pushed down to the lowest common denominator of humanity....greed.... I would love to read the memoir that you have written, as I would expect many would...even if it won't make the money that publishers need... further “irony” is that the reason someone would exploit their children is such a way, is because the networks are showing the cheap reality shows on TV to save cost in programming and production, isn’t it? The art involved in creating dramas, the work offered to writers, set designers, production crews and REAL actors is being lost. People are struggling for jobs, for money and ways to earn it. Real craft and art is disappearing, and along with it goes the desire for, and appreciation of it. We are being pushed down to the lowest common denominator of humanity….greed….

I would love to read the memoir that you have written, as I would expect many would…even if it won’t make the money that publishers need…

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