James Frey, J.T. Leroy, Nasdijj. These literary frauds recently captured headlines and office gossip around the gin-coolers of publishing houses everywhere. Oprah, feigning ignorance of the book biz, blamed the publishing companies for not checking their facts. The publishing companies pointed the finger at economic realities and said it’s not financially feasible to examine every claim made in a memoir.
And meanwhile, these scandals occur during a time when everyone is complaining of flat sales, declining readerships, and loss of the public’s attention to television.
So allow me to suggest this modest proposal. Publishers, utilize reality television shows to perform your fact checking. This strategy gets the authorial dirt, exposes books to reality TV’s considerable audience, and provides a fantastic example of synergy for the mega-entertainment companies like Time Warner.
Plus, seeing The Dog sink his prominent canines into J.T. Leroy’s ass would simply be fantastic entertainment.
Let’s look at the three cases of literary fraud mentioned above and see how reality television could have solved the crime.
James Frey on Syndicated Television’s Cheaters
Appearing in more than 200 markets nationwide, Cheaters stops at nothing to root out and expose infidelity. “Both dedicated to the faithful and presented to the false-hearted to encourage their renewal of temperance and virtue,” the crack investigators of Cheaters could have discovered the extent of James Frey’s falsehoods.
Just imagine… instead of grainy black and white surveillance films of Ray Ray getting it on with the Tammy after finishing the second shift at the Taco Bell, the show could have revealed footage of college student Frey chilling out in the conference room at the Granville, OH police station.
Phone taps could have recorded Frey making his call, “yeah, man, I’m going down. I’m facing a serious stretch here! This place is full of hardcore killers. I’ma have to mob up!” while in actuality, he adjusts his white button-down shirt, puts his feet up on the conference room table, sips his soda and counts down the three hours until freedom.
Most entertaining of all would have been host Joey Greco and his camera crew slam on the brakes in their minivan. They pile out, surrounding a disoriented Frey in the dark parking lot of the Granville, OH police station. Greco confronts Frey about his falsehoods while the cornered writer repeatedly blinks in the spotlight and stutters, “I mean again, we’re dealing with a very subjective memory.”
Nasdijj on MTV’s Room Raiders
Contestants on this show inspect the living conditions of three suitors. They are given a forensics kit, including the all important black light, and they scour bedrooms in an effort to learn about the personalities of their potential dates. Usually, the contestants of this show head straight for the underwear drawer, looking for porn, used tissues, or frightening stains.
The format of Room Raiders could have been altered in such a way that would have undeniably revealed the true identity of supposed-Native American writer Nasdijj.
An examination of his room would have turned up gay pornography, cowboy hats (but not the style featured in westerns we watched as kids, I can assure you that), and identification materials that have nothing to do with membership in the Navajo nation. Instead the IDs would be for for Tim Barrus, a twice-married Caucasian best known for producing S&M fiction.
Room Raiders could have gotten to the bottom of Nasdijj/Barrus’ sock drawer much quicker than the LA Weekly article that ultimately exposed him.
J.T. Leroy on Dog the Bounty Hunter
Dog Chapman usually hunts down bail-jumping cons in paradise’s seamy side. Aided by his Super Friends cadre of trackers, including his wife Beth Smith (often dressed in her own red, white, and blue version of Wonder Woman’s outfit), and family members Tim and Leland, Dog is determined to stamp out crime in Hawaii. However, he will make a trip to mainland in order to get his man. So he could have tracked down the J.T. Leroy story long ago.
Major media outlets spent months on the Leroy saga. Dog could have wrapped that shit up in one or two episodes. As the hunter says, “you gotta run with them in order to catch them,” so imagine the sight of Dog, with his kevlar, mace canister holsters, Oakley Thump sunglasses, and padded gloves striding into the middle of the tweed-jacket-masses at one of Leroy’s publishing appearances.
Dog always looks for the weakest link so he would have broken someone involved in the J.T. Leroy cover-up. And once he finds his quarry, the SUVs screech to a halt, and he sprints in his cowboy boots to grab the author in big sunglasses, blonde wig, and big hat. Dog throws Leroy up against his SUV and cuffs him. But then Dog tries to get through to Leroy, tries to convince him/her to turn his life around. “You gotta leave behind da lies, brah,” Dog would say to his capture. “Lying to people, manipulating their good will, preying on their sympathies is no way to live.”
So there you have it, publishing companies and reality television producers. A humble suggestion to solve the quandary of fact checking memoirs while providing new reality programming and exposing books to millions of people. If they can make reality shows about stitching clothes and running on treadmills, then why can’t a book about scouring the Earth for literary truth and publishing justice succeed?
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1. Fact: Dating .Coms biggest money maker on the Internet besides pornography
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Please afford me the benefit of your serious consideration in my endeavor!
Respectfully,
Saul M. Detofsky, Chairman, CEO Registered - WGA WEST- # 1100090 / Copyrighted 2006
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I am an Associate Agent at Fred R. Price of Fred R. Price Literary Agency, CA State Registration # TA 3043 14044 Ventura Blvd. Suite # 201, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, (818) 763-6365
Let’s Meet Concept, defined
Let’s Meet will have a prodigious TV audience with more viewers and especially more participation than the Internet because of the innovative safe platform designed to deter date rapes which is the most significant source of rapes that the new Internet technology has brought into our lives. Now finding romance is as easy as turning on your TV and turning off your computer if it isn’t already down in need of repair like most.
Let’s Meet has a built in feature that is meant to intimidate people. The mere design of the public domain like TV is a built in feature that will stop a bad element of people from joining that we really don’t want to join anyway. Let’s Meet TV Show is like Americas Most Wanted Show but in reverse. The pure innovative design of the concept is meant as a deterrent to keep dishonest people from joining and only showcase people who want to meet other good people like themselves that have already joined. The rest won’t join because of the bio-metric fingerprint mapping and because of the thorough screening process too! A person who has a police record or outstanding warrant for ones arrest won’t put their face on television, it would be too risky. A married man or married woman wouldn’t show themselves on Let’s Meet unless they wanted to be caught red handed dating singles by a spouse.
Since 1996 with advent of Internet computer dating date rapes and women getting killed have escalated dramatically along married people posing as singles, money scams to identity fraud and killings. It is so inexpensive for anyone to buy dating software and build your own website. Many blogs like MySpace, You Tube, Friendster are a breeding ground for disaster to happen. Can you believe that Newscorp bought MySpace for 580 Million dollars even after all the bad news media publicity with numerous law suits and reported date rapes and killings.
Internet Cyber Space problems have been increasing at a very high rate. Many more thousands of women are going to be raped, losing their dignity or even worse being killed. As high as one in every four women might be in a possible rape situation or worse, so I can’t over emphasize this enough. We don’t even know about the thousands of unreported cases. When is this going to stop? We all must be proactive in trying to prevent these rapes from happening. There is only one way. I would like to see all dating sites banned from the Internet.
All this by no fault other than a common denominator that they are all choose to use the wrong media platform not designed for the overall public and most times less than honest people that the Internet dating sites cater too.
Porn is another big topic with only one consolation; nobody gets raped or killed from watching although it will break up a marriage or spice it up!
Since we are now seeing many of all these numerous problems most states in our country now have to have the extra expense to support Cyber Crime Divisions, Technology and Electronic Crimes Bureau and Computer Crime and Identity Theft Prosecutions.
The Internet hasn’t lived up to most people’s expectations with all the scams and spam.
During a let’s Meet broadcast 40 or even 60 million or more can be watching Let’s Meet showcasing singles on television once we are nationwide.
In your home how many people can view a computer at one time? Let’s Meet will self generate and grow like a domino effect and will be the home shopping network for singles just like QVC, Value Vision or Home Shopping Network. I predict that it will most likely run 24 hours a day like QVC once we have franchises in every major city in the US. The TV viewers’ will scan into watch Let’s Meet with their TV remote controls during those long commercial breaks. Let’s Meet won’t spam e-mails like Internet dating sites do, nor will you ever see a Let’s Meet pop up ads on your computer either. While people are drooling over these nice looking singles they will be listening to beautiful romantic instrumental music. You’ll never know when someone might get discovered like Star Search or American Idol.
If people want they can also watch a simulcast viewing of the entire show over the Internet 24 hours a day on our web site and you will be able to download any portraits that you like if you are a member. I have contacted the entire Women’s Coalition organization nationwide. They all need to stay focused on being proactive and implement or develop a preventive measure like Let’s Meet. The coalition directors have to ban together and work as team to contact news media and lobby with the politicians in their respective state government this coming 2007 and to formulate a new effective strategy otherwise all women will be still at very high risk. We must to put an end to this now. If a state government or NOW can’t raise the money for this project I personally feel the only other avenue to pursue is to put pressure on the big cash cows (money makers) like e-Harmony, Match.Com True .Com or Perfect Match.Com and try to persuade one of them to change their marketing strategy. Together they are all making millions of dollars daily on LOVE the biological necessity we all strive to find in our lives. Feel free to Contact me, 24/7 (321)751-6963 Thank you,
Saul M. Detofsky, President / CEO / Associate Agent at Fred R. Price Literary Agency, CA State Licensed
State Licensed # TA 3040, 14044 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 (818) 763-6365 Saul M. Detofsky is the east coast representative for Fred R, Price Literary # TA 3040, 14044 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 (321) 751-6963