Siegfried & Roy special
Sep. 21st, 2004 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigertoyI posted this to an exotic feline mailing list I'm on, but I thought I'd share it with my LJ audience and see what comment anyone might have.
I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion of the Siegfried and Roy special. I watched it last night. I thought it was padded with a disapppointing amount of fluff, as though they didn't have enough real material and they were desperately trying to fill the hour, but there was definitely stuff I wanted to see.
What really bothers me is that they actually had Roy saying that he had the stroke first and then Montecore pulled him off the stage, Siegfried saying that if Montecore had meant to hurt Roy, Roy would have been dead "in two seconds", and even Roy saying "he [Montecore] saved my life", yet outside of those brief bits, the message was still that the tiger attacked Roy. Roy has no ill will toward Montecore, but the show's producers apparently don't want the country to feel that way.
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Date: 2004-09-22 09:01 am (UTC)He did have an additional stroke or strokes after he was at the hospital.
Clearly, the main thrust of the show was on Roy's recovery, which is really amazing. What actually happened on the stage and whose fault it was was a small part of the show, but in that part of the show the message I thought they were pushing was that the big bad dangerous tiger turned on his owner. It may be primarily out of ignorance, but when they spend millions of dollars to make a program interviewing the greatest living animal trainer and don't manage to learn enough from the experience to overcome that ignorance, that's very shoddy journalism. I think the sensationalism is a deliberate attempt sell more soap flakes.
Yes, I know I'm hypersensitive on the subject.