Originally Posted by Epoch

Maybe it's something more like College Fuck Fest or Girls Gone Wild. People are paid nominal amounts, if at all, to act in ways that can seriously screw with their life later on, but they do it cause they're on camera, and they want the attention.

The fact is, that talk shows largely live on the same level, but they hide behind levels of "self help" and other such BS to show the same displays of dehumanizing someone for profit.