Quiz-Show Scandal: Video Essay

Evaluative report on the Twenty-One gameshow 'ordeal' for premonitions of modern network/media/TV/toys 'access' dictionaries.

An essay on the seminal net-culture reflective 1950s Quiz Show scandal (Twenty-One), which I think you'll like, 

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This documentary like presentation of the 1950s TV quiz-show scandals linked with public disclosures of a fallout of trust between producers/investors and audiences/voters/fans in the American Homeland was a precursor to modern Earth culture media-network sensitivities to varied communications/information design superstitions for Internet hacking, WikiLeaks intrigue, online capitalism trust-reciprocities/sales, and general human world 'network' language for record/history/lifestyle. Given how our culture of consumerism/entertainment conveniences (e.g., Netflix Bloomberg-TV, CNN.com, etc.) reflects an Earthling globe interest for 'sportsmanship' linked democratic image for trust/information, these revealed 1950s American quiz-show scandals are vital for our culture history education (for the books).

The 1950s Quiz Show scandals, of which I'm focusing on the 'revelation' of the Twenty-One intelligence trivia TV-gameshow being rigged for celebrity/ratings, showcased a stark worry in technology/communications for how socialized exchanges are complicated by a 'human factor' of profit or bias. In Twenty-One, an affable middle-class working Jewish man (Herbert Stempel) was found to be paired alongside a very notable American intellectuals-culture (Ivy-teacher) as game-show contestants 'fed' answers to brainy trivia questions to ensure their continued wins/appearances for audiences 'craving' class-based fantasy for knowledge-access entertainment for education theory/rhetoric. Certainly that entire Twenty-One image was in the annals of network-civilization 'evolution' constructions drawing to our modern Selfie/Facebook/eBay/BBC.com/Netflix tech and toys net-participant consciousness for Earthling behavior/democracy.

I find this 'moment' in American culture/history quite the symbol-trope for record and examinations. As a Selfie-age citizen of the West (American Homeland), investing in communications arts and creative-writing of culture trends/superstitions/sportsmanship/ghost-stories, I think the Twenty-One 'ordeal' revealed a special line for cleats in the study/intuition of tech-and-toys bureaucracy for 'advanced' capitalism leviathan (for all).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)