Stakeholders

Steven Schwarz

English 102

4/5/2012

Stakeholders

The stakeholders of my research paper are as follows.  My first stakeholder is ABC itself.  They are the channel in which my show exists.  What lies at stake for them is their integrity as a network, and of course ratings.  My own stake in comparison is different simply because I don’t care about their ratings, or their network’s success.  My concerns exist for who wins the show, only because My family and I bet on the winners.

The second set of stakeholders would be the contestants on the show.  The 25 women being chosen care about their personal image, and finding love.  If they are publicly humiliated on this show for any reason it will carry over into their lives off the show.  Once again my stake in the matter only matches the one girl I chose to win.  I wish for her to maintain a good reputation and end up winning the show as to preserve my good taste in women of course!

The Bachelors themselves hold stake in this.  Their decisions week by week are heavily criticized, and they too wish to pick the right girl for them.  If his taste for women matches mine, then his stake partially matches mine as well. I of course don’t have a reputation publicly riding on his decision, but I do want him to pick a good girl for his sake.  Should the girl I pick be that good girl he’s looking for, it’s a win-win situation. 

Chris Harrison, the host of the show is another source who holds stake in the matter.  His ability to diffuse problems on the show and manage the contestants while also making his dialogue in the show entertaining for viewers are his concerns.  He appears to want what’s best for the bachelor, either from genuine concern, or to maintain the show’s integrity.  For the most part his stake doesn’t match mine aside from wanting the bachelor on the show to make a good decision that he’ll be happy with.  He has pressures to publicly manage the contestants well, in order to keep the show as classy but still entertaining as possible. 

The rest of my resources are critics and scholarly viewers who wrote about the pros and cons of shows such as this one. Their stake most accurately matches mine, because they wish to know and spread the understanding of why and how this show affects the public.  They want the show to be as real and unscripted as possible, and to believe that what happens in the show can stand as lessons for people in the world to learn from.  They want the truths that ABC doesn’t address publicly about the staging  of the show, whether it’s true or not.