Chomutov reality show

A new genre of something like a local reality show has emerged in the Czech Republic. Moving in with poor Roma into a decrepit pre-fab house for a couple of days and then narrating how disgusting and revolting it is to the whole nation. One cannot help but agree, especially when it is Mladá fronta Dnes, our „biggest daily newspaper“ that presents us so perfectly and vividly with such a report. Thursday's TV magazine Dnes called To the bottom of Chomutov broadcast the latest work that was experienced „first hand“ among the „greatest dirt“ and that narrates, with passion, about a grim life full of stupidity and decadence among the notorious debtors at the local housing estate – that is, among Roma. The troubled face of the reporter Tomáš Poláček (who is depicted in a sleeping bag sitting on the floor of a decrepit flat) portrays at first sight what his esthetic and moral norms had to go through during his five-day cohabitation with Roma. Not only was there not a single working light bulb in the corridor of the house and the neighbours were banging against the floor when cutting firewood but also, the corridor was so dirty that the reporter's „saliva went bad“ and the children from the Tokár family (opened their home to the reporter) depicted with such gusto even called him „you fagot“ („ty buzerante“). Drugs, weird characters, fights, criminals, STDs, suicides only multiplied the justified feeling of disgust.…