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TV to Avoid: The Moment of Truth
By Ken Horn | February 28, 2008
Seeing commercials for this program was nauseating enough. I couldn’t tolerate viewing the actual show.
Television is outdoing itself, exploiting gullible people, and destroying families and lives. That’s all that can happen with this show.
The wife of a New York City cop admitted, on Fox’s The Moment of Truth, that she cheated on him. Oh, and she also let him (and the world) know she wishes she was married to a former boyfriend instead of him.
The show’s Web site says contestants “answer 21 increasingly personal questions honestly, as determined by a polygraph, and win up to $500,000.”
Ironically, the couple has apparently destroyed their marriage for nothing, since they won no money after the wife was caught in a lie by the lie detector when asked if she thought she was a good person. She had said, “Yes.”
Lauren Cleri told the New York Post, “We’re kind of up in the air right now—I want to [get back together], but I don’t think he does.”
“It’s not very easy to overcome,” said her husband, Frank Cleri.
This is TV at its lowest … exploiting people, appealing to greed above decency, and destroying lives.
Fox, you ought to be ashamed. Oh, and so should any Christian who finds the show entertaining.
(Read the complete TV to Avoid list.)
Topics: entertainment |
February 28th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Reality TV and shock shows only exist because viewers keep swarming to them. It’s time for Christians to change the channel. Or better yet, punch the “off” button on the remote. Life is short, and there are so many more worthwhile things to pursue.