Stampede on "Wowowee" kills atleast 73

Atleast 73 killed in stampede in Manila stadium stadium where 30,000 gathered for show

Though, other stories have reported higher death tolls. But, if you ain't already knowing about the exploitation and degradation of the impoverished population of the Philippines that are perpetuated through shows like "Wowowee" and other Filipino variety shows, what happened here shows the fucked upness of the country and its elites. I watch these shows every now and then when I'm at a Filipino household that carries The Filipino Channel, and when the variety shows come on, especially the contests with prize money, I get sickened to my stomache by the treatment of the primarily poor contestants by the mestizo looking hosts (and this is just a fraction of my animosity towards these types of shows). Hosts will begin to act condescendingly to the contestants hoping to win an amount of prize money that wouldn't seem like a lot in the US, but would provide a great needed assistance for a jobless family. Fuck these bastards for they're elitism. Now 73 are killed in a stampede to win the equivalent of 314 American dollars. This incident reveals the abandonment of a huge population of the Philippines, whose only hopes for assistance would be to win prize money on a game show. Of course, GMA will sound saddened by the incident, but if anything, she should respond back by taking action and ending the huge gap that exists between the rich and the poor in the Philippines. Folks is hungry out there, of course they're going to be running over each other to get some food on their table.