The Paradox of Reality TV A comment on the article: “Television: Why Reality TV Is Good For Us” For the last decade‚ reality TV has become increasingly popular. Not just popular‚ as in commonly well accepted and generally appreciated‚ but amazingly popular – a cultural revolution. The article “Television: Why Reality TV Is Good For Us” describes the phenomenon as the reason for the creation of attractive cults lead by spiritual leaders in shape of heartbroken singles‚ horny studs and failed actors
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Reality TV shows have become very popular on the small screen nowadays. There are many realities TV shows out there that can relate to anybody watching them. There are a lot of topics about how reality TV shows gives out different characteristics to the viewers. For example in the article “The Distorting Mirror of Reality TV” Sarah Coleman focuses on all the different characteristics that many reality TV shows provide for the people watching. In this paper I am going to talk about two characteristics
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Reality TV Shows General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my listeners that there are many Reality TV shows. Central Idea: There are many Reality TV shows and they are popular. INTRODUCTION I. Attention Material A. Have anyone in here watched a Reality TV show or has heard of one? II. Orienting Material A. Reality TV shows are very popular and are watched all over the world. B. Today‚ we are going to talk about Reality TV shows. (Transition: Let’s begin
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and some are just a little just because of reality televisions. This reality television changes the concept of reality in people’s mind. Television first started as our eye for outer world which we don’t know about and for being informed which we can say a “tool” but now it is just our “aim” to be on television. So this is forming obsessed brains which causing death of morality as Rushdie says. First of all‚ main reason why people are joining these reality programmes is just the anxiety of being rich
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worlds and reality TV. The question is has this brought us to a place were our reality is now blurred? We live in a world were we are surrounded by the mass media portraying air brushed woman‚ attractive guys‚ perfect families etc this is in our faces so much that we start to think that this is who we should be and how we should act‚ the norm of life if you want. The distinction between real life and life represented by the mass media gets blurred and all sense of reality is lost. Reality television
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"The real" in reality programming is a highly flexible concept. Rather than solely relying upon the use of actual documentary or "live" footage for its credibility‚ reality programming often draws upon a mix of acting‚ news footage‚ interviews and re-creations in a highly simulated pretense towards the "real." Admittedly‚ mainstream television news is also involved in the recreation of reality‚ rather than simply recording actual events. And yet‚ "reality" is dramatized on reality programming to
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Annotated Bibliography How is TV bad/good? Do you learn from watching TV? What shows are best to watch? These are just some of the questions that this annotated bibliography will answer for you and help you decide whether TV is good or bad. This bibliography can be used by anyone who wants to decide if watching TV is good or bad‚ either for their children‚ or themselves. Johnson‚ Steven. “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” They Say / I Say With Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ Russel
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Reality TV Programs are Not Really Real Introduction Imagine this. A producer came to you and said: “Hi‚ I would love for you to be in a reality TV program.” So you asked what it means to be in a reality TV program. He’d answer with “all you need to do is act normally. Just do what you normally would do‚ but the exception that a camera crew will be following you around.” You agreed‚ and the camera men‚ producer‚ director and writer started following you around. And when they’re filming you
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Assignment 1: Reality television has become increasingly more popular and appears to be taking over the entertainment business. Psychologist Lawrence Rubin seems to think it all goes back to Aristotle‚ “The notion of being drawn to drama and tragedy”(Kinon‚ 2009). The viewer receives a false sense of “real life” and disconnects from their own “real life” by diving into someone else’s. The effects these television shows have on society as a whole can be positive or negative depending on the
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“People don’t understand the pressure on me to look perfect‚ and be perfect” says famous reality television star‚ Kim Kardashian. Reality television shows are popular television shows that document the daily actions and events of people’s lives. The aim of reality television is to entertain the viewers‚ by supposedly giving exclusive insight into the lives of rich‚ high class individuals who thrive off drama‚ materialistic items and fame. These types of shows are causing issues in the teenage demographic
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