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Reality shows – the present of mass media on entertainment which make the big influence to American society. Everybody watched the same stuff, the same old movies, or the same reruns before the cable TV or Internet appeared. For example, the Simpson was a successful sitcom became an institution as important as the cult classic. They poured their shared pop culture experienced into the show. However, the character

There are a multitude of shows with insincere people, but one of the most phony-filled programs today is The Bachelor on ABC. Out of hundreds of contestants, there was one particularly phony woman that stuck out; Her name is Courtney Robertson. From the beginning, viewers could tell that she was no good. She was too put together, and also very vocal about her career as a model and upcoming photo shoots she was apart of. It was obvious to the viewers that she was using the bachelor, Ben Flajnik, as a way to further her career. Ben, completely entranced by her beauty and charm, could not see that she was simply using him as a pawn. At the end of his season, he proposed to Courtney, and left the genuine woman heartbroken at the alter. Only weeks later, Courtney broke off the engagement with Ben and began a successful career as a model and novelist. Her first novel was about her experience on The Bachelor and sold well. When she told Ben that she loved him, she was not serious; She loved what he was doing for her career. Not once did she think about how her actions would affect Ben or the fans. If Holden were a Bachelor fan, I believe that he would have some choice word for her, due to her narcissism and

So where did this idea of reality TV come from? How many kinds of different reality TV are out there and why is this is

uack, quack! If you’ve ever seen the new hit show “Duck Dynasty” you may find yourself thinking its duck season. A&E’s latest show has taken America by storm. The season three primer of “Duck Dynast” gave A&E it’s highest ratings ever. The show doubled in viewers from its second season to the third. It’s the second most watched show on cable behind “The Walking Dead” bringing in 8.4 million viewers. The show was the most talked about show on Facebook in 2012. The season 3 final beat American Idol in the ratings. The show’s growth will only go as far as America’s love for hairy, godly hillbillies, which at the moment seems to be growing everyday.

Also, in many cases, the characters used in these shows are not ordinary individuals, but highly paid actors that simply recite scripts. Clearly, these shows are inaccurately labeled as “reality television,” and many individual’s time is wasted as a result. Time for many is very valuable. Wasting a person’s time because of an inaccurate description could be just as detrimental as wasting a person’s money because of an inaccurate description. Many people watch these shows to view real life situations, but what they are really viewing is the complete opposite. This cultivates confusion about what is real and what is fake.

Educational, stimulating, witty, are all adjectives you would not associate with reality television. Reality T.V is a case of vegetating

the bachelor logoReality shows have perfected the art of leaving the viewer hanging. If you've ever watched the show, you're familiar with the format.

Now, people creating these shows look for the bad things in their lives to entertain the viewers. You might think that making a few people's lives look bad to make everyone's watching look amazing is okay. It is most definitely not. When thousands of people laugh at you based on the way producers make you look, it’s not to funny anymore, especially for the people being humiliated. Forty year old, Claire, sure found this out the hard way. As she looked at the contract of the show, Claire said this "the phrase that jumped out at me was the one that effectively said we had no editorial control.” Claire was a little afraid to sign but with the producers breathing down her neck and reassuring her it would be fine, Claire ended up signing. Her reality tv experience was sure not one to forget. Encouraged by the TV crew, Josephine (one of Claire's co stars) went through Claire's wardrobe, pulling out clothes she didn't like and expressing shock at the "filthiness" of Claire's home. Her experience shows you that Reality TV may seem good and entertaining, there can be many down sides to all the

In my opinion, this seems to be one of the most popular types of television shows. An example of a show categorized under comedy from the past might be Seinfield. This show aired from 1989-1998. A television show that is popular today that is a comedy is How I Met Your Mother. How I Met Your Mother aired from 2005-2014. Seinfield and How I Met Your Mother are both alike. The two shows just aired in separate decades. I feel like the producer of How I Met Your Mother made this show because the show Seinfield was such a popular show in the previous decade. Both shows are about a group of friends that always meet at the same restaurant or bar and sit at the same booth. The plots may be different, but there are many similar things about the two shows. An example of similarity between the two shows are the repeated phrases. For instance, Seinfield uses the phrase “not that there’s anything wrong with that” the same way that How I Met Your Mother uses the phrase “Challenge accepted”. You might not understand this comparison unless you have actually watched the shows. There are many similarities, but to me, Seinfield does not appeal the same humor as How I Met Your Mother. However, my parents like Seinfield better. So this is just an example of different generations growing up watching different

Reality? I would say furthest thing from it, is more like it! Reality Television is not even remotely close to what real life is like. In real life, a fifteen year old who gets pregnant is frowned upon, versus on “Reality T.V” that same fifteen year old would become rich and famous, all while drinking, breaking the laws and partying. This type of programming promotes poor behavior, lowers self-confidence, and has viewers thinking they need to live some elaborate, crazy lifestyle in order to be happy. Reality T.V promotes bad behavior by filming these “role models” partying, getting in trouble and becoming famous for doing so, lowers self-confidence by sharing all the plastic surgery stories or going on about what the “perfect

I make the choice to put these TV series on my list because are the series that we really enjoy watching. I put Shark Tank first because the content is good, I think is great that people who have ideas to start their own business try to find the help that they need to get it. Also, that is something that happens in real life in which one can learn about how to communicate and act in front of people who are trying to pressure to get a part of your business if they consider help you. Other are Game of Thrones and Grey´s Anatomy, I chose these ones, because of our friends in common watch it too, so when we meet we talk about it and we exchange opinions and point of view. Family Guy was my last option I like it, but I don’t need to watch all the

To quote Matt Philbin, managing editor of the MRC Culture & Media Institute, “the problem with much of reality TV is that it isn’t about real people or reality at all. These are highly scripted, performed shows, ‘written’ like a piece of fiction and as such they need the classic conflict-driven characters and soap opera melodrama.”

Reality shows strive to create relationships and keep viewers attention by interesting or shocking them. The relationships are not however, natural relationships. One example of an unnatural relationship development in reality TV would be Fox’s “Married by America”. In this show, people who have just met get engaged in hopes that in just a few weeks, the couple will marry. In most cases, people date for a period of time before being engaged and people usually do not marry as quickly as the couples do in the show. There is also more relationship development. Other examples would be marrying someone for their money, such as CBS’s “Cupid” or NBC’s “For Love or Money”. The shows both deal with someone marrying someone for money rather than for Love. Marrying someone just for money is unnatural; people usually marry someone for love and not just for their money.

Reality television has been around for many years. In fact Alan Funt was the first to create a reality show, with his 1948 TV series Candid Camera that is often thought as reality TV's first show. In fact, he started a year earlier with Candid Microphone on the radio. Truth or Consequences started in 1950 and frequently used secret cameras. Both of these two pioneering series created artificial realties to see how normal people would respond; the reality series of today borrow a lot from these shows and differ mostly in extent and setting. A number of "who am I?" game shows accommodated the clunky nature of early TV technology by bringing real people into the studio. Like What's My Line premiered in 1950; and I've Got a Secret in 1952. These shows seem tame by today's standards, but were certainly cutting edge in the 1950s.

But can reality television actually be called reality? Do people watch because reality television offers an alternative to boring and hackneyed type programs? The fact is that reality TV is just as boring and predictable as the so-called unreal programs. Reality TV can, for the most part, hardly be considered real. An article in Rolling Stone confirms this, stating that, “The premise is always the same: Put ordinary stiffs on television on TV and they’ll do anything, anything, to stay on TV. Didn’t we already learn that from Kirstie Alley?” (Rolling Stone, 2001). If this were in fact the case, then way would anyone watch what is described as something as horribly predictable as the above? How could such a style of