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The real point is the pleasure the NBC bosses take in ridding themselves of a pretty childless Campbell Brown, as the highly trained professional becomes when made into a victim by a game that was the favourite of that philosophe de la féodalisme violente, the divine marquis.
The very idea of early-rising American tv-masses as victims of the reproduction trap and therefore unable to relate to an elite with a life of choice (ms Brown) is perverse enough. Ms Brown is of course no elite in the eyes of her bosses. The pleasure they take in making her understand where she belongs is surely missed by ms Traiter.
Marquis de Sade - as ms Traiter will recall - profiled the elite as endowed with rights including the right to an absolute disregard for its victims. Yet the divine marquis never tires to elaborate on the crushing fate of the victims. I doubt the NBC bother with that.
Pity therefore that the dimensions of the cruelty inflicted on ms Brown should be of such a forgotten character.
