Dear Diary,
A thing that I really hate in people it's the mechanism of denying reality to maintain the idea they have of the world.
Some data and some situations are just facts, and no-one can have an opinion about the reality of facts, people can have an opinion only on the subjective perception of this facts.
For example: the sea it's made by water. I can have an opinion on what I like or dislike about the sea, I can have an opinion about how beautiful the sea is, but I cannot say that the sea it's made by coffee, because it's not.
I wonder why people have to deny facts... I'm not talking only about no-vax or people who follow stupid conspiracy theories, but also every day situation.
I just explained to my parents that questions from the odience in recorded TV programs are generally agreed upon prior to the show. That's a fact, it is not an hidden truth,
and it is right because one wrong intervention can ruin an entire episode. No one who work in television would deny that.
My parents deny this fact, because if it's true then the program it's fake. But why? I mean, people are unpredictable, even with agreed questions sometimes someone do inappropriate things, what in the hell would happen if everything is left to chance?
Accidents would increase, downtime would increase, questions could be inconsistent, guests would need time to answer and the speech could be poorly organized and understandable... more editing work would be needed and an episode may need to be recorded multiple times. All this things are not compatible with television schedules, people are working there, they are not in studio to play with dolls.
How I know that? I went in television audience several times, I studied televisions and new media (even if I didn't finish university) and I still work (underpaid) in live events, so I know a lot of people who work also in television. But, most of all, this is not a secret! Nobody expects that home viewers think the questions are impromptu... It would be stupid.
So, why they have to say that I'm wrong if I'm not? That's a fact. People can't deny facts!
The earth is round, vaccines are not a conspiracy, Bill Gates is not a satanist, QAnon is bullshit, reptilians don't exist and the questions on TV are prepared in advance!!