by Mike Meginnis A 1950s television show did the unthinkable: surprise a victim of the Hiroshima bombing by introducing him to one of the bombers on live TV. Running from 1952 to 1961, This is Your Life was an emotionally intense experiment in early reality TV. Subjects were lured to the studio under false pretenses, then host […]

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    1 year ago

    American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what’s worse, I think, is that they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

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    1 year ago

    Wow that’s bleak. An amazing read

  • FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ah, someone else is a LPOTL listener I see.

    Did you know one of the guys on BOTH planes went on to found Hell’s Angels and later became leader of the Banditos?