French Television uses Milgram Experiment Model for Reality TV

This article is in German, but here the English in brief:
France 2, in a documentary, discussed the most perverted reality TV competitions. Shows in which people free willingly hurt themselves, are degraded, degrade their 'opponents', public dissections... you get the gist. The directors wanted to finally end discussion about the power of television and proof that TV erodes our minds. A public execution, by the masses, through TV.
While an interesting experiment, the fact that the Milgram experiment reached the same numbers, without a TV set, just makes this somewhat trivial. Still worth a read.