The damage of "Reality TV" OP/ED

[Catholic_Lady]

In my defense, lol, I think ppl are extremely interesting. I see reality shows as being like social experiments: take a group of strangers and put them in some kind of crazy situation and see how they react. That is especially true for survivor, which in my opinion is the best reality show ever made.

 I haven't seen survivor so I'm just talking about the reality show I've seen here but......
The problem is that you aren't necessarily seeing genuine reactions.  

You're seeing people act in a way to optimize drama, comedy and publicity to ensure they'll get further work on television a large portion of the time.

For example something I spoke about before is people saying stupid things on purpose for comedy effect.

Big brother in the UK started out as a genuine social experiment and it was interesting, there were builders, bankers and people you'd not be surprised to run into at a bus stop or in the work place.

After that the huge influx of the contenders was purely the people wanting to be famous.  Dancers, failed popstars, people purely wanting to get a foot in the reality tv show game.

And a lot of the time that's what the situation will be at best.

At worst it will be the producer just telling someone they need to cause trouble or set up a scenario for them to play along with.  Something like on pawn stars it will be "Oh no, Jim Bob's organized something and I need to find something before a certain time or Imma gonna really be in trouble!"

But saying that, I've never seen survivor so I can't comment on that show.

I understand there's editing and some producer manipulation. in some shows much more than others. But I think for at least the shows I watch, it paints a fairly accurate general picture of what goes on, even with the dramatization of editing.