the notorious roy suryo has returned, this time in a form of a fax he sent to the local medias, the soft copy being distributed by satrio arismunandar to lots of mailing lists. he protested a reality tv show named JMI, Joe Millionaire Indonesia. and i quote:
Mulai dari sosok Joe yang digambarkan sebelumnya sebagai seorang milyuner beraset 50M, datang ke lokasi villanya naik helikopter, sebenarnya bernama asli Marlon dan profesi sehari-harinya seorang peselancar, ini sudah merupakan kepalsuan prinsipal. Sangat berbeda dengan kondisi aslinya di Amerika dimana memang Joe (baca: asli) adalah seorang milyuner sebenarnya dan berniat untuk memilih pasangan dengan membeli acara JM tersebut, bahkan (maaf) bisa mengajak kencan para wanita kontestan sebelumnya. Jadi kapasitas dan kompetensi Marlon di JMI ini pantas diragukan, karena dia bisa seenak-enaknya memilih secara subyektif tanpa memperhatikan ribuan bahkan jutaan SMS pemirsa yang terbuang percuma, karena apapun yang diketik oleh para pengirim SMS tersebut sebenarnya hanya digunakan untuk undian, alias tidak mempengaruhi penilaian JMI oleh Marlon.
roughly translated into english, he claims that:
- the original reality tv show in america featured a real guy named Joe, and he actually had the 50 million dollars, and the original show was practically bought by Joe for his own leisure.
- the sms sent by viewers are practically wasted because it doesn’t affect which female contestant who will win.
the blatant ignorance showed by roy suryo just made him more ridiculous. we all know that evan marriott, the first joe millionaire featured by Fox, barely made US$ 19.000 a year as a construction worker. worst, he was broke and to earn some money he worked as a skimpy swimsuit model.
i still can figure out how he messed up that claim, quite probably he doesn’t understand english very well. what i can’t figure out is how he messed up the claim of the wasted sms sent by the viewers? it was clearly stated in indonesian language (bahasa indonesia) that the sms are not for polling, it’s just a quiz to guess who’s the next contestant that will be eliminated!
it’s quite baffling how his mind works. probably too much tv and satellite dish on his house.
[UPDATE]
it seems the fax link had been heavily edited, i suspect it had been done to avoid further embarrassment. anyway here’s the original softcopy of the fax.
