From my TVFan blog....It took someone sending me a Facebook message for me to find out MTV was doing a show on high school journalists. As a real-life journalist, I have an natural inclination for the world of journos.
So I threw the show on my TiVo and waited to see how journalists would be portrayed on MTV - and to my anticipation, they came off as whiny, condescending, bloviating group.
The show chronicles the student staff of the The Circuit at Cypress Bay High School in Weston, a town in South Florida.
But much like the MTV show, "I'm From Rolling Stone," this show is little about journalism and more about mindless and petty pickering (don't we all miss high school). I guess MTV thinks people tuning into a journalism show don't want to be bored by actual journalism.
The show has its main stable of characters, most notably Amanda, a pesky, self-absorbed hollowed caricature.
Her lack of self-awareness is shocking but makes for great TV as she is completely clueless to what her news staff really thinks of her.
The show isn't so much a microcosm of journalism but more of high school students with the drama, backstabbing, jealous and bitching - not that there isn't those things in journalism.
Because I am no longer in the targeted demographic of MTV (after I turned 26, I became ineligible to appear on the "Real World") watching this show reminded me how I am no longer young. Good riddance!
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