Networks -- they're everywhere!

Each Sunday I scan the television guide that comes along with my Pittsburgh Post Gazette. I got into this habit when I started teaching -- I like to be at least aware of what's on, even though I rarely watch it -- so that I can have a reasonable entrance point of conversation with my students. (They aren't usually fans of the Food Network like me!)

Coming up this week is a reality program airing on ABC called "Six Degrees of Martina McBride". Slated to air from 9-11 PM on Monday, July 30, here's the description by PPG TV writer Rob Owen, "If you want to make it in showbiz, it helps to know someone -- or, in the case of this special, know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Martina McBride. Using the old "six degrees" formula that says we're all connected through six or fewer people, six aspiring singers try to establish a link to the country music star. A record deal awaits the one who can do it -- and outsing the competition."

I wonder if Milgram would applaud this, or if he'd be sickened by it?

It just cracks me up the way that these concepts keep popping up all around me. Maybe it's a sign that I'm in the right program! :)