RE: The damage of "Reality TV" OP/ED
December 28, 2016 at 9:30 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2016 at 9:31 pm by Regina.)
(December 28, 2016 at 2:24 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Anyone who isn't skeptical about reality tv must be either young or unwise or something.Exactly. A lot of these "reality" TV shows are at least semi-scripted. The "competition" shows like X-Factor, Big Brother and [country]'s Got Talent are well-known for scouting and recruiting contestants (guaranteed places on the show, before they even audition) they think will bring the show ratings.
It's obvious that the shows are either completely fake, or that the situations are encouraged by producers to make it exciting to watch on a day to day basis.
It's probably soul destroying to watch TV with me because I watch it a lot of the time with the mind of a producer or editor.
I can kind of see what Brian's frustration is, in the sense that there's a lot of downright stupid fuckers who watch these biblically and take them so seriously. I don't know if I'd argue that the shows themselves do the damage though, these people were dumbed down long before.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
