Is reality TV harmful to society?
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The BBC's John Humphrys has described British reality TV as being "seedy, cynical and harmful" to society. Do you agree?
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An attempted live broadcast of childbirth on British TV will be too "intrusive", a medical body says.
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: Instead of parading overweight teenagers on TV, ministers should own up to, and work on, their own hideous habits
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: Al Gore's vital message has been compromised by the hypocrisy of the celebrities he has chosen to broadcast it through.
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Should babies and toddlers be exposed to television at all? Is there any chance that they could actually learn from the screen?
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Our ridiculous vigilance represents a society gone mad, but the disagreement is over why this happened.
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Some people might resent being mocked on national television by Bob Eubanks. But Mark Fordham is philosophical about it.
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Is the âmidlife crisisâ the newest excuse for poor behavior?
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In the shrinking world of 24-hour global  news, every kidnapping and atrocity can present a painful  ethical dilemma for the media -- does depicting these horrors  turn them into tools of the perpetrators?
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Hubris can be harmful to your health, especially if that underwarranted confidence comes from drug manufacturers concerned more about obscene profits than protecting the consuming public from potential harm.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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The BBC seems to be coming in for strong criticism from some of your correspondents. Many people would like to see the BBC abolished altogether.   I have been amazed by the information on many subjects that are available from the BBC on the internet.
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NEW YORK  - In the midst of the rise of the  reality makeover show, recent statistics have shown that U.S.  teenagers are increasingly turning to adult cosmetic procedures  such as Botox injections and liposuction.
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Forget manufactured pop. After suffering  a surfeit of Reality TV shows that propelled instantly  forgettable stars into the charts, British music fans have had  enough.
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Too much personal talk by doctors can be bad medicine, according to a study published on Monday in which U.S. researchers sent actors posing as new patients to see doctors in secretly recorded visits.
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Watching the World Cup on television may not only kill you, but could give you facial paralysis first, Chinese state media warned on Thursday.
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Reality TV turns nobodies into stars. Spoof Internet music videos garner millions of viewers.