Fox To Make Reality Show Out Of People's Misery

The Fox network is letting employees of some troubled small businesses decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off and turning the results into a reality show. The series, "Someone's Gotta Go," is in production, but Fox wouldn't say on Wednesday when it would go on the air. Each episode will feature a company with about 15 or 20 employees that needs to cut costs because of the economy. Instead of the boss deciding who is fired, the company will open its books to show everyone's salaries and let the employees make the call. In an inverse to "The Apprentice," the chosen one loses, instead of gets, a job.
Fox says the laid-off worker will get a small severance, but isn't saying whether the network or producers are paying the participants in anything beyond the chance for prime-time fame.

I really don't believe that televising people losing their jobs is entertaining especially since every month the unemployment rates go up and there are so many people looking for work. You stay classy, Fox. source

In The News: 1 In 10 Americans Are Using Food Stamps

A record 32.2 million people -- one in every 10 Americans -- received food stamps at the latest count. "A weakened economy means that many more individuals are turning to SNAP/Food Stamps," said the Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger group, using the acronym for the renamed food stamp program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program. Vermont, Alaska and South Dakota had increases of more than 5 percent. Texas had the largest nrollment, 2.984 million, down 65,000, followed by California at 2.545 million, up 43,000, and New York with 2.211 million, up 37,000. source

More "Class" From The New York Post

From the same people who brought you the dead monkey cartoon.

In The News: Babies Having Babies

We all remember the report from England where a 13 year baby faced baby believed that he impregnated his little fast assed girlfriend. But after the report went public, a sh*tload of young boys started claiming that they tapped that too. Alfie's father then demanded that his kid take a paternity test.

"It had not even crossed Alfie’s mind whether Chantelle had not been faithful to him," his mother Nicole said.The Daily Mirror reports the test has proven the infant is not Alfie's — a finding that is likely to leave the boy devastated.

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