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The Celebrity Apprentice 3

Trump: “I never make a decision based on entertainment value”

by Andy Dehnart 20 Apr. 2010 | 8:01 am

Donald Trump insists he’s never fired a contestant on The Apprentice in order to keep someone who’s more entertaining. Seriously.

“I make my own decisions,” he told msnbc.com. “I never make a decision based on entertainment value. If it’s going to hurt my credibility, I won’t do it. Once I lose that credibility, the show no longer works.”

I wouldn’t quite say the show no longer works, but he’s certainly lost that credibility, not that he ever had the self-awareness to realize that.

Is reality-show voting rigged? Well, sort of … [msnbc.com]

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Andy Dehnart’s writing and criticism about television, culture, and media has appeared on NPR and in Vulture, Pacific Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He has covered reality television for more than 18 years, and created reality blurred in 2000.

A member of the Television Critics Association who serves on its board of directors, Andy, 41, also directs the journalism program at Stetson University in Florida, where he teaches creative nonfiction and journalism. He has an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing and literature from Bennington College. Learn more about reality blurred and Andy.

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