Lost in "Lost"
If all you know about the news media is what you've learned on TV -- which is the case with a lot of folks -- then you have a whipsawed perspective of reporters. On the non-news shows -- oh, maybe the news shows, too -- reporters are either portrayed as ambitious, conniving nuisances or inept, fatuous pieces of fluff.
Last night's season finale of "Lost" suggests that the writers don't watch much TV. (Show synopsis here.) The news media is simply asleep. The Oceanic 6 survivors are a worldwide sensation and become celebrities upon their return. Yet they have concocted a Big Lie about the three months and no news outlet cracks it.
Stick-thin Kate is six month pregnant when she boarded the plane, but she wasn't showing at all? Can you imagine Us or the National Inquirer letting that pass? None of the six ever spills the beans about the lie, despite the fact they don't seem to care much for each other. The crew on the boat that found them know about the lie and don't tell anyone? At least three people who were on the island but not among the official Oceanic 6 are back in civilization, and they don't tell anyone, including a teen-ager who knows the official story is bogus? The bloggers would have a field day with this.
What world are the producers living in? The British tabs don't exist? Inside Edition doesn't exist? Rupert Murdoch would never stand for it.
I'll be watching next season, too. It's just TV.
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I hadn't thought of this beyond the "news conference" portrayed in a previous episode, which struck me as a little off. But you're right, the woes of the Oceanic 6 would be all over TMZ and similar sites.
Then again, "Lost" exists in a different universe.
Posted on May 30, 2008 9:54 PM