I can't go a day without turning on the TV and there is a reality TV show on. I can unterstand maybe one or two but there is like 50 and to top it off everyone is a spin off of the other. American Idol spinoff Nashville Star or something like that. I'm sure life isn't that boring that you need t0 watch someone elses life suck or succed. WHat ever happened to going outside and doing something, no wonder Americans are so damn fat. Everyone is glued to the tv watching Reality TV which isn't even close to reality. EVerything is staged. Everyone of those shows suck. What happened to good tv. I think it made wrong turn back in the mid 90's.
It's all fucking garbage. I was watching that old reality dating show SHIPMATES a couple of years ago and the dude on the show was a guy I knew. He acted like a total prick.....not surprising though.
I also hate reality tv especially when they do men vs women. My God hasn't that been done enough already. I did like the first couple of Survivors and FilmFakers but that is it.
Me too, I love the Amazing Race haha. It's just about the only thing I watch on TV other than sports or the news or a few documentaries...
I was working at a TV station when the first "Survivor" came out. I worked with a lot of people who'd been in television for 20-30 years. We all agreed it was crap. Unfortunately, it was crap everybody watched. Reality television's everywhere because: 1) it's really cheap to produce 2) there's no shortage of morons willing to humiliate themselves in public for the chance at a few quick bucks or 15 minutes of fame. and 3) there's no shortage of people who seem to want to watch it. Take a look at what's happened to television news. No substantive reporting of things like how the president is a blantant liar, how we can go to war for no good reason, how the price of oil has gone thru the roof, how politicians can pay their wives and children half a million bucks for nothing, but there's some dumbass car chase and every lousy station airs it live. Watch a film called "Network" made in the '70's. Prophetic.
I think I have a reality TV problem. I know it is not good. I know it is staged. But, I cant turn it off. Why do I keep watching?
You don't want reality TV, you can't handle reality TV God that's like saying hot water heater. Yes it's reality, and it's TV. But it's neither reality or TV. Reality is when you experience something, and the next thing happens. You get the uncut version. Every nuance, every facial expression, every feeling. TV is TV, it's Benny Hill, it's Dick Van Dyke, it's The Waltons. Reality is real, TV is staged. When you try to mix the two you only end up with a distorted view of the world. Didn't Micheal Moore do a documentary about this? I cant handle the news anymore. Either I'm supposed to feel sorry for the poor girl who can't speak for herself or I'm supposed to feel guilty because we've destroyed a society that denounces capitolism. I can't even get an accurate weather report anymore, not because the meteorologists can't predict the future, but because the most accurate forecasts are ones no one want to hear. So with the most advanced interactive technology known to man, I find myself not only in the dark, but in the dark with monsters I never knew existed. Weird, out of this world monsters with their slanted views and and huge claws turning my head in the general direction they want me to look. Massive ears that only seem to pick up the most direst of straits. And a little voice that tells me eveything is going to be ok as long as I don't turn on the light. If you want reality, you need to live it. If you want TV, you need to watch it. But keep in mind either one can be twisted into anything you expect it to be, if you let it.
Here's a new idea. Let's have a reality show that goes all over the country and shows footage of all the protests and activism. Can you imagine anything like that on TV in the U.S.? The media won't ever try such a thing out of fear that they might cause people to start thinking for themselves and become activists. I notice when I watch news from networks such as EuroNews or BBC that there are many more stories about protests by the common people. I see almost none of this on the U.S. corporate cable news networks. Last year there were couple hundred thousand women who marched at the mall at DC for women's rights and none of the cable news networks even mentioned it. They show nothing but sugar-coated watered-down versions of stories that keep the U.S. public dumbed down and clueless to what's happening in the world. .
