Art News Commentary

From Jersey Shore to the short-lived All American Muslim to the much glitzier Shahs of Sunset, there seems to be no ethnic community left untouched by the national carny show known as “Reality TV.”

Always dissed or ignored by the mass media—and thus hungry for more attention--the multi-ethnic enclave of organized labor might have been our last hold-out against letting it all hang-out in this shamelessly exhibitionist genre.

But that modest stance is about to change, quite possibly for the worse, on union turf that’s very familiar.