The Apprentice is on tonight and I am not watching it. I know that may be unforgivable by some... the diehard fans of this show but I refuse to be part of that apparent majority that look forward to the bullying, belligerant behaviour of a millionaire hard headed man of business. And I do not want to be part of the voyeurism that pits working colleagues against each other to the point where they will cruelly twist the truth, stab in the back while smiling in the face, in the name of defending their right to stay in the running to the very bitter end. As audiences lap up the poor creatures squirming and wriggling their way through the paces of task, result and who should be fired, I can't help but feel alarmed at the values this programme is teaching and wonder at how this makes popular prime time television. But that is what it is.. great television...pulling in the viewers in their thousands...even millions. So you watch it if you wish and when you find out who the unfortunate soul is that gets fired this week, let them know for me that they are well out of it. Why do young impressionable, vain, boastful young men and women think it is such a great honout to work for a man whose sole motive is the almighty pound, how to make more of it and how to be ruthless, callous, merciless for the job of a lifetime.
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