the painful lie

1. i think the guy meant like it's enough torturing Van Doren, he has already confessed his guilt, don't humiliate him anymore.

2. what this television program did was simply hiding the truth, they did not swear that what they say is pure truth. and one more thing, they were most likely to be the first people tempted to hide the truth in order to get higher viewers' ranking or what so ever. they did not defraud the people and get their MONEY.

3. well, if i were in his shoes, i wouldn't have lied but if i had already started lying i wouldn't have revealed the truth unless the same thing would have happened to me (Charles Van Doren).

4. I think the person who is convinced to lie is to be blamed, even if the producer had offered him to lie, he should have not lied. the person tempted should be punished...

5.Sure, certainly, don't hesitate to think if it is true or not. as far as great money, fame and media is concerned there are lies that are being hidden from the people. But since i don't watch tv often, i just don't have any tv program in my mind.

6.There is a dichotomy between these two set of morals. Academic set of morals are to be strict since they are related to people future and lives, but entertainment, even if it is based on lies and people find out, they just didn't miss any important thing, a simple feel of being betrayed to! but what if a person is lied to when it is about education.... ?!

7.It is quite overt that we still have people that are surefooted viewers of TV programs (e.g. American Idol, Britains got talent), but they are not as that willing and depended on TV like before. So, i can predict like they won't be that upset if they find out they have been lied to, their population has increased much more than that era (50s) but they don't find it a serious problem if they are having the same problem like the scanda.

8. seems like the confessing scene was the most effective, painful and sensative scene throughout the movie, i guess it infulenced everyone, alittle bit painful though... .
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