Numéro spécial, cette semaine, puisque nous vous proposons le sujet de la session 2002 des CAP/BEP tertiaires (secrétariat, comptabilité…) que les élèves ont passé il y a une semaine. Un sujet très intéressant, avec un texte relativement facile, mais des questions pertinentes. Vous trouverez à la fin le corrigé officiel de l'épreuve, qui vous permettra de vous auto-corriger. Vous avez une heure! :-) Bonne chance! :-)

> Laurent Camus

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TALK SHOWS AND GAME SHOWS: A CRAZY WORLD

People will do anything to get on television. Especially if they're American…

One evening last February, 23 million Americans watched a woman called Darva Conger marry a man called Rick Ruckwell, live on TV. Darva wore a white wedding dress, but it wasn't a very romantic moment: the couple had only met some minutes before.
Darva Conger was simply the winner (out of 50 contestants*) of the game show Who wants to marry a millionaire? Rick Ruckwell was the millionaire. A few days later, he was denounced as a fraud (and certainly no millionaire). It was a real scandal.
Another example is Survivor - 16 contestants are left on an inhospitable tropical island, and must find their food to survive. Several weeks later, the one who survives in this environment will receive $1 million (FF7 million).

Americans reveal intimate details of their private lives.

The attraction of talk shows is that they are simple games: real people's lives are manipulated for entertainment*.
Talk shows exist in all countries, of course, but they are extreme in the USA. The present king of talk-show hosts* is Jerry Springer. His show has pushed back the limits of what is acceptable on TV. American talk shows encourage their contestants to get violent.
The audience* likes shocking confrontations. For Richard Dominick, producer of the Jerry Springer show, there is no limit: "If I could execute a criminal on TV, I would do it. I'd kill him on our show."

(sujet BEP/CAP tertiaire, session 2002)