'Big Brother' finalists
Artists protest against reality TV
Movement holds rally calling for alternative culture during final episode of reality hit 'Big Brother'
Thousands of people arrived at the Tel Aviv Museum plaza Tuesday night for a protest rally against reality television, which they say has entrapped an entire nation into a bubble of cultural emptiness.
But around 10 pm, when the grand finale of Israel's latest and biggest reality hit "Big Brother" approached its end, the square quickly emptied out.
Rallying under the slogan "Creating an alternative culture", the artists managed to lure a few thousand supporters out to the streets where Israeli singers and artists performed.
"Of course everyone wants to see the final," laughed on of the demonstrators, as the plaza emptied.
Lior and Yuval Horovitz, two students present, said they were sick of reality television and showed up to protest. "It's a culture that tells us what is interesting and when," they said.
One of the booths set up at the plaza had a donation stand for the Garinei Omanuyot (seeds of art) movement that was behind the event. However, the donation stand did not do as well as expected.
Dan Fink of the Garinei Omanuyot movement hoped people would continue to donate. "The test will be soon, but today was a call to the entire nation that we are going back to work hard for culture," he said.
"It's disappointing that we've reached a state of weariness that leads us to watch such things. It's not the reality's fault. The question is, what alternatives are there to it."
