Benefits Street

The french private TV M6 has won 3 of the most influent hits of this summer: firstly with the final of european football cup, secondly with the Quantico TV cop show with ccomplexity, and finally with the french adaptation from the english Benefits Street joking about the poor people.

That's the TV canal which made Bog Brother, Undercover Boss and The Apprentice in France, so what could we expect?

I admit I didn't see the entiere show as I was bored and I can't help myself to see all of this.

I also admit that I was excpetating worst than what I saw.

Because this is the kind of show that creates debates BEFORE to be released!

There are caricatural comments and shoots, but hey, they followed a few people, and then we always speak about the late trains and never about the punctual ones. So we'll remember this ''people from the north region'' drinking beer all day instead of looking for a job, and we won't remember the mom taking care of her son's friends. But she is in the same documentary.

Caricatural as when I heard ''if you want a job you can have one'', but in a region where the financial power closed the main firms (so I don't think there is a lot of jobs in the area).

Here is a nice explaination on what are our memories made of, well, how our brain builds memories, false memories (sorry, it's in french, but one day there will be the same in englsih):

So my opinion is that there is a big problem with the original ''format''. We could have shooted more ''nice'' people and less abusive (or despressive) people ''just waiting for the social helps to buy alcohol''. We could have know more about the social and economical environment for each individual, we coule have a global view so it would have been less stigmatizing.

Hey, is that me or are they giving the postal adress (and if you didn't understood there is a nice architect's 3D to show you where these people live in the district)? Isn't it contrary to journalistic ethics?

So what is the objective of the channel, showing THIS documentary, shooted like THAT and builded THIS way? The worst is when you read the director talking about wanting to show the consequences of theunemployment, and you'ld want to ask why the broadcast does not match with his living experience? That's weird.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't question like that if we were not one year before our presidential election...

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