The President Factor: The Reality Show that Rocked a Nation - Softcover

Pat Obermeier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942483864 ISBN 13: 9781942483861

Publisher: Blacklight Press, 2020

Synopsis

Fed up with the lack of credentials in an ever-growing field of candidates, Democratic hopeful Senator Adhemar Reyes spouts off on C-Span, ""I propose all presidential candidates be required to participate in a reality show to show how they handle crisis situations before we put them in the White House!"" Uh-oh. Congress buys into the idea and Reyes is sucked into hte mother of all reality shows, The President Factor. The TV networks go about misusing the show's footage to satisfy their own political agendas, the cable talk shows ratchet it up a notch, and the people buy it all. Will the charismatic Hispanic candidate win? Why is one team getting Malaria shots? Can Washington politics be even more absurd? Yes, to the last question. The rest is inside. Originally self-published in 2015 by Emmy-award winning author Pat Obermier, The President Factor seems almost prophetic.

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About the Author

Pat Obermeier is an award-winning creative writer and producer who worked in the world of network TV in New York City for close to 20 years after a two-year stint in the morass of politics at a network in DC. Her career took her into newsroom at CBS, CNBC, MSNBC and NY1 and on-location to launch a TV show for Dick Wolf, down to New Zealand for Studios USA and into the studios of networks such as Bravo and IFC. She created titles for Fox comedy shows and repackaged History's Lost and Found. Along the way she was honored with five Emmys and over 30 PROMAX and BDA awards. She is known for her out-of-the-box, humorous, off-center approach to projects and the subsequent, almost requisite response of are you nuts, we can't say/do/ run that! from a few of her less adventurous clients. She is also the author of the chick lit novel, The LoveBeep, along with a slew of political satire columns for Political Storm. Her essays and flash fiction have appeared in the Buffalo News, the anthology, Right Here, Right Now by Rust Belt Press and various online sites including the The Ravens Perch and The Flash Fiction Press. You can also find her on Medium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blacklight Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942483864
• ISBN 13: 9781942483861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354