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Is Love is Blind a Toxic Workplace?

2024/6/12
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Emily Nussbaum：本文探讨了Netflix真人秀节目《Love is Blind》的劳工问题，包括睡眠不足、食物短缺、超长工作时间以及据称存在的身体和精神虐待。节目组与参赛者签订的合同中包含广泛的条款，限制参赛者的权利，并要求其签署保密协议。这些问题引发了现实电视领域新兴的劳工运动，以及对节目职场文化的质疑。 此外，文章还讲述了多起诉讼案件，例如Jeremy Hartwell控诉节目组的非人道待遇，Tran Dang控诉节目组忽视其遭受性侵犯的投诉，以及René Pochet控诉节目组未播出其在节目中的经历。这些案例都反映了真人秀节目拍摄过程中存在的诸多问题，以及节目组对参赛者权益的漠视。 最后，文章还提到了Bethany Frankel倡导真人秀明星组建工会，以争取更好的权益。然而，由于真人秀明星的特殊性，组建工会面临诸多挑战。 Jeremy Hartwell：在节目拍摄期间，我遭受了睡眠剥夺、食物短缺以及缺乏基本生活保障等非人道待遇。 Tran Dang：我在节目中遭受了性侵犯，但节目组对此置之不理，并强迫我拍摄虚假的场景。 Carter Wall：我与René Pochet的关系在节目拍摄过程中恶化，我的行为变得具有威胁性，节目组对此心知肚明却仍然继续拍摄。 René Pochet：节目组未播出我在节目中的经历，并因为我公开谈论此事而起诉我。 Bethany Frankel：真人秀明星应该团结起来组建工会，以争取更好的权益。

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This week's midweek podcast comes from our colleagues at the New Yorker Radio Hour:

On the Netflix reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” contestants are alone in windowless, octagonal pods with no access to their phones or the Internet. They talk to each other through the walls. There’s intrigue, romance, heartbreak, and, in some cases, sight-unseen engagements. According to several lawsuits, there’s also lack of sleep, lack of food and water, twenty-hour work days, and alleged physical and emotional abuse. *New Yorker *staff writer Emily Nussbaum has been reporting on what these lawsuits reveal) about the culture on the set of “Love Is Blind,” and a push for a new union to give reality-TV stars employee protections and rights. “The people who are on reality shows are a vulnerable class of people who are mistreated by the industry in ways that are made invisible to people, including to fans who love the shows,” Nussbaum tells NYRH host, David Remnick. Nussbaum’s forthcoming book is “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV.)” 

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