read about this bizzare gameshow in China – of all places – where contestants on an entertaiment show were asked to guess how many children died in Beslan. Pravda– yes it has survived the fall of the Soviet Union – reports:

The Chinese channel CCTV-4 aired an entertainment program on September 6th – just several days after hundreds of children were killed in Beslan. The program was held in the form of a contest. A host offered contestants to answer several questions, picking the correct answer from several suggested variants. One of the questions was about the number of victims in the terrorist act in Beslan, North Ossetia. The contestants were supposed to choose the correct number of victims – from 302 to 402.

Somehow bad taste on TV is getting worse. What next? A quiz figuring out how many times someone “did it” the past week.