Reality TV – “How real is real?”
“The word reality no longer means what it meant”
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Media Studies the Essential rescource.
‘Audience participation and reality TV ‘
“It is the audiences that are now in control”
By Philip Rayner, Peter Wall and Stephen Kruger
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96294653
“movies by their very nature glamorize everything they touch”
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“if you're looking for anything like accuracy in movies, you're barking up the wrong tree. It's simply not possible”.
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http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Real-is-Reality-TV?&id=191704
Reality TV show has real world people instead of paid actors and actresses. These shows are supposed to portray real life situations and events that affect people's lives. However, participants of reality TV shows are sometimes willing to go outside of their boundaries and do things that they would not necessarily do in their normal lives, without the cameras following their every move.
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“For some people, these shows help them realize that their lives are not all that bad after all.”
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”Reality TV shows have affected society in many different ways. Some audiences get hooked on these shows because they help them escape their own real lives. The shows vary in theme and material and every show is designed to attract the biggest possible audience. The bigger the audience, the more money the shows make”
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“According to a poll by CNN, 57% of 1016 adults believe that Reality TV shows provide a distorted picture of events while another 23% say the shows are "totally phoney". The amount of pressure for TV ratings pushes people to make the show more interesting.”
“their flaws made them so identifiably human ”
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