Monday, January 2, 2012

10 Biggest Persons of Interest of 2011

Barbara Walters does her show every year about the "10 Most Fascinating People of (whatever year)". That's kind of interesting, I guess, mostly so everyone else can criticize her choices for who's "fascinating" and ask why she gets to choose; but we're such a sensationalistic gossip & crime obsessed culture, so wouldn't it make more sense (and generate more ratings) to do a show called "The 10 Biggest Persons of Interest of (whatever year)"? "Persons of Interest" is referring to people the police are investigating for flagrant horrific crimes, but who haven't yet been convicted (or charged), and who everyone pretty much assumes are guilty (despite the "innocent until proven guilty" thing). And since it covers the whole year, you could include people who have been charged, convicted, exonerated, etc., so long as they were at one time over the course of the year a "person of interest" in some big sensationalistic crime. And with so much media coverage gluttony in these cases, the show's host (Babs Wabs or whoever else; maybe Nancy Grace: she's be perfect for it! Or perhaps Jane Velez-Mitchell!) could simply use pre-existing footage of this stuff in sped-up montages, rather than actually interview the people. Or, if they wanted to, perhaps they could use the interviews as an excuse to tell them what human filth they thought they were, say how guilty they are, spit on them, etc. Wouldn't it be great?