reality tv

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  1. bo79

    bo79 New Member

    I'm just wondering if it's just me or is anyone else on here is really sick of all this reality shows that are running on tv right now?

    Bo
     
  2. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    Not sick of them because I have never watched any of them. My reality is enough of a show;)
     
  3. roysavia

    roysavia New Member

    Reality tv is nothing more than trash. This also include sitcoms, movies and talk shows. Only 5% of all the television documentaries and news events have any educational value. Forget the idiot box and instead concentrate on your studies.
     
  4. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    Like Randell, I've never watched any "reality TV." Not only do I believe that it's trash, I don't believe that it has anything to do with reality. Those that watch it seem to get the greatest pleasure from making fun of the contestants.
    Jack
     
  5. GENO

    GENO New Member

    My question is: How can it be real if there is a film crew there? If you know you are being filmed how natural can you be? They are cheap to produce (no real actors,just wanna be's) and parts of the viewing public actually like them. Was it P.T.Barnum who said: Never under/over estimate the intelligence of the American public?
    57 channels and nothing on - the boss.
     
  6. DaveHayden

    DaveHayden New Member

    I am not a fan of them, but I have seen a couple. It seems to me they are just another form of enertainment. I can't say they are worse than most other enertainment I've seen such as sitcoms or movies or golfing or.... Perhaps they are more of a guilty pleasure like soap operas or cigars or such, but there is probably much worse out there. Somehow I think our society will survive!:)
     
  7. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I really like some reality TV and dislike a lot more.

    I like "Cops". In fact, I'm required to like it, since it was created by a graduate of my own CSU Dominguez Hills:

    "COPS" executive producer and creator John Langley (M.A. English - 20th Century Thought, 1971) visited campus on Oct. 3 and described one night's exhilarating ride on a police drug bust when he was doing research for a documentary on cocaine. The adrenallin-rush experience became the basis for an entertaining documentary, now known as "COPS."

    The television show, he says, provides an open arena to what law enforcement is all about. He adds that while the show is unique in its dramatic context, it can also help people learn about the roots of crime or laws, which they may not agree with.

    Langley discussed the making of the show, revealing that it takes a week's worth of filming to compile just one episode. He also stated that it took eight years for him to sell the show's concept. It was different than anything on television for its day, he says, a show without a narrator, host, script or actors.

    According to James Suldanik, professor of communications, Langley has heavily influenced the rise of "reality television." The success of "COPS," which has been on the air for more than a decade, opened the "reality" genre floodgates, Sudalnik notes, helping to pave the way for the many other sub-forms experiencing widespread popularity in the United States and around the world.


    http://www.csudh.edu/univadv/2001/Dateline/1015Dateline.htm

    So, if you don't like reality TV, blame the people with CSUDH MA's.

    Actually, probably the most memorable TV I've ever seen has been reality TV. Just think: 9-11.

    The "embedded" correspondents in the recent Iraq war, with their live unedited satellite feeds, produced some unforgettable television.

    News coverage, after all, is paradigmatic reality TV.

    But yeah, I agree, when "reality" degenerates to these bachelor and millionaire shows, it becomes little more than drivel.
     

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