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Reality TV Is Hardly Real
Reality TV is Hardly Real. First they carefully pre-screen contestants so they get stereotypes or oddballs who will make for some drama. Then they spin some bogus rules or goals which the contestants follow along like sheep without saying bunk. Then they just happen to have camera's in all the right places to catch every whisper, confession, and conspiracy. I'm not saying there is a printed script and they're just reading lines. I'm saying it's so carefully manipulated the end product usually has no real connection to reality.
 Grenache  29 Jun 2008 14:53
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I hope you are right because if that is reality our species is doomed.
 
 finsch  14 Nov 2008 23:42
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Reality TV is not realisitc whatsoever. The people they choose to go into Big Brother are hardly normal. Soap Operas become far too overdramatic. They're nothing like people in real life, if so it's a small minority most of us have yet to come across.
 
 MaYbCaKe  14 Nov 2008 14:15
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Reality TV is bullshit. It doesn't matter what form it takes, it is still rubbish. The fact that Big Brother can release series after series just boggles the mind, it really does. Its popularity has spiralled downward and yet they still release new ones. I actually threw my remote control at the TV when I heard the theme music starting a new series.
 
 Tromanator  14 Nov 2008 14:08
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"It's not reality, it's actuality." So they say.
 
 Stranger  09 Oct 2008 17:22
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"reality TV" is basically just a name these days.
 
 ur_wrong  27 Jul 2008 04:11
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Reality TV is one of the main reasons i hardly ever watch TV these days. I mean come on its so obviously staged it's stupid to think otherwise.
 
 maugatar  01 Jul 2008 23:20
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The only television I consider "real" is documentaries.
 
 Snipex  29 Jun 2008 23:51
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Reality TV was really interesting and entertaining when they first started them. Now, everyone is doing it and it is really played out. I think that the reality TV they have sucks. American Idol is the only one I really watch. They have a reality show for everything though. From singing, to dancing, to finding a best friend, to America's Next Top Model, to anything and everything else. It is getting out of hand. The networks need to find something else to put on TV.
 
 curious  29 Jun 2008 20:35
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In the beginning, they were really cool, but they have since blown it out of proportion. They are all the same. Every time I turn on the TV, there is a singing or dancing contest. If they are going to have these reality shows, then they need to come up with something different. We are sick of singers, dancers, and people trying to live with each other. They do not mock real life that much either. Maybe they should have one that mimicks real, every day things like getting out of bed and going to a job you hate or raising kids. I don't watch much TV any more, because it is all stupid reality shows. What ever happened to the good sit coms?
 
 Professor  29 Jun 2008 19:46
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Quincel put it perfectly. I hate reality TV, I get enough reality every day.
 
 mastermov  29 Jun 2008 18:29
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I agree, and am pleased to see Big Brother 9 with low ratings and possible plans to scrap the 'franchise' after BB10.

I have nothing against it ideologically, if adults want to be on TV and they know what they are getting into (and by now, they all do) then that is their choice. If people wish to watch it and are entertained by it that is their choice. But it is not my preference, and I am glad to see it's slight decline.

'Reality TV' suffers from the problem Soap Operas do. No-one wants to watch TV with people like them in it. We have that, it's called life. People want something more interesting and exciting. Hence soap operas have ludicrous plot lines and reality TV have ludicrous contestants and situations. Both are trying to give the people what they want, but reality TV undermines itself in doing so.
 
 Quincel  29 Jun 2008 17:10
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No.

You can find insights into the human condition through any multitude of venues, television included.
Just another form of "people-watching".....
 
 Scorpion  09 Oct 2008 17:54
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