In an editorial about the latest reality program, Temptation Island, which debuted on Fox Wednesday night, today's (Thursday) New York Times comments that the show was "far less salacious" than its critics made it out to be but that it was patently not a high-blown effort "to explore the dynamics of people in serious relationships" as Fox Chairman Sandy Grushow described it.

"The most ethically troubling aspect of Temptation Island and its ilk is not the shows themselves, The Times observed. "It is the evasions of television executives who try to make these shows sound like the latest installment in an ongoing discussion of modern commitment." The show, it said, merely proved once again "that the way to a young man's wallet is through his lurid imagination."

Source: Studio Briefing