• Vet­ting processes are going to get a lot stricter. The back­ground checks are becom­ing more and more rig­or­ous. Clearly, each time there’s a slip-up, the bar goes higher.
• For­mer VH1 exec (and cur­rent Ish Enter­tain­ment owner) Michael Hirschorn • Describ­ing the state of the real­ity TV indus­try at the moment. After the triple-whammy of the Ryan Jenk­ins case (which directly affected his for­mer net­work), Bal­loon Boy and White House gate crash­ers Michaele and Tareq Salahi, TV pro­duc­ers are try­ing their best to improve their vet­ting processes. The Jenk­ins case in par­tic­u­lar – which wasn’t a media stunt but a bru­tal mur­der that led to a sui­cide – has increased back­ground checks by 25%. Still, it may not be enough. “Peo­ple will go to pretty extreme mea­sures to make them­selves stars,” Hischorn said. source

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