The Calgary Sun
reports that Sarah Schnare, a native of British Columbia, didn't make the final cut on the ABC TV show "The Bachelor: Rome," which aired on October 9. OK, fair enough.
But here's what's interesting: Schnare is described as "a producer for CNN’s 'Larry King Live,'" based in LA. As the Canadian paper explains, the CNN staffer "was approached by a casting director at a bar and asked if she’d be interested in trying out for the show."
OK, so maybe that's how things work in LA: producers for cable news networks are sitting around bars until casting directors "discover" them. And then she is whisked off to Rome for six weeks, along with 26 other women, all for the ostensible purpose of marrying an eligible bachelor--in this case, businessman and prince Lorenzo Borghese (prince of what, by the way?). Yes, there are such things as leaves of absence from a job, and all that, but still--this episode strikes The Cable Gamer as, well, gamey. Just out of curiosity, for example, what's the CNN policy on its employees being involved in fake showbiz activities?
And what was the show like? "A lot of it is so produced, it’s like nails on a chalkboard watching it back," Schnare said. Gee, you don't say. And maybe now we've learned more about CNN's watchability and its news values, too.
