Did anyone catch this documentary on C4 last night?
Thought it was shocking in its revelations about how this program was run, and quite powerful to hear from the people who worked on it and the guests who were affected by it.
That the lie detectors were, an expert said, at best 60% accurate and peoples' lives were destroyed over the results seemed criminal to me. People swearing they were innocent of the things they were accused of. Being called disgusting liars on national TV.
I'm surprised the man is still in a job, although the producers just as guilty.
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RIP Trigger 😉
But people would tune in to watch it. The same way they tune in to listen to Piers Morgan or they’d read articles from The Sun.
For a lot of people it was viewing to make them feel better about themselves and find comedy in other people’s expense.
A horrible mix of picking on the working class, and in some cases the mentally unwell, and laughing at them whilst pretending to be some moral crusade.
Group of people at my old work organised a trip to see the recording of one episode and were honestly confused why I didn't fancy joining them or consider that it might be a laugh. Had no desire whatsoever to go.