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DEAD FAMOUS – BEN ELTON

One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. One survivor. One murder.
Nine weeks, No excuses, no escape.

The book is about the lives of 10 ‘ordinary’ people, living in the Peeping Tom House, the English counterpart of ‘Big Brother’. When a murder happens in front of million of viewers, an inspector is given the task to find out who did it and how it was possible with 30 cameras monitoring every movement…

Misleading the public

Television is first and foremost an educational medium. It is an instrument of persuasion, indoctrination, seduction, propaganda, and mind manipulation - all done in an entertaining way."
-Marlin Maddoux-

We live in times when the media takes a central role in our lives and community, so that actions that take place are often a reflection of what television presents. This form of media has enormous ability to influence and brainwash the general public. The talking box in everyone’s living room plays an overpowering role today as a result of the weakness of society.

The biggest weakness of this society is the importance of money and big business. Research and studies have proved that youngsters spend an average of nearly 30 hours a week watching television; some even spend more time watching television than doing anything else except sleeping. It then comes as no surprise that in a community where money signifies success and influence, producers of television shows and programmes try to make their creations the most prosperous of businesses.
We’re not only pointing a finger to reality programmes (that skip the reality part and make everything fiction) but also to the more entertaining and seemingly ‘innocent’ programmes and even the news. They too manipulate and mislead the public. The news is always shown through the filters of media biases. How can we believe what we see when actors may...