What are the factors that make reality TV so popular today?
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1. we sit and hope we see confrontation 2.is satisfies the "voyeur" in us all 3. makes for chit chat at the water cooler at work the next day
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The medias portrayal of women.\nSimply put as long as there are ridiculously thin models splashed all over it will be a problem.
664376
HAHA, YOU AGAIN! WELL I'M STILL WATCHING FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR AND WILL SMITH! THE POSITIVE IMPACTS OF TELEVISION WOULD BE THAT IT CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH VALUABLE INFORMATION AT A MODERATE RATE AND IT CONSTANTLY CHANGES. TELEVISION IS ALSO EVOLVING AS WE AS PEOPLE AND AS OUR NATION EVOLVES, SO DO OUR STORIES AND THE WAY THEY ARE DELIVERED EVOLVES. AND THAT CAN EFFECT OUR EVERY DAY LIVES WHICH MAKES ONE FEEL CONNECTED TO THE STORY OR MESSAGE.
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My favorite reality show is The Amazing Race. I think it's the only show I could ever stand being on, personally. (And I would LOVE to)\n\nI like the host, Phil. He seems like a really good guy. I also love the idea of the show.. racing around the world. They visit so many interesting and exotic places, and many of the tasks they do are local area activities. I just find it all quite fascinating.
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The television remote control. It causes "couch potatos", and an even more sedentary lifestyle than before. At least we used to get up to change the channel. And I believe that we used to consider what was on TV and make a judgement, before getting up, but now people just "channel surf" and watch all the junk that's put before them. More time spent watching TV.
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Becaues of there out-going personality. And they may be funny and have a sense of humor. Or it could be the way they carry them selve(far as dressing and looking attractive). And then if that person has good qualities about them selve and they are playing sports or cheerleading,and really good at it, then they would really become popular. "It's just really within the personality"
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Numbers\nHouse\nBones\nCSI\nCold Case\n\nSo many people watch these shows! They are not in the exact order, but they draw in about over a few million viewers every night!
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1) Project Runway--I love the show, its about designing fashion and Tim Gunn rocks! I wouldn't even be able to get on it, let alone win it unfortunately. I don't have the technical skills to whip up beautifully tailored clothes in hours or deal with crazy diva designers (the other contestants.) \n\n2) I Want to Be a Soap Star. I find this show addictive, even though I'm not into soaps. I guess the appeal is that you get to act in these outrageous scenes (it IS for soaps after all) sometimes in glamorous clothes. Plus, you'd be surrounded by hot men. But....like Project Runway, its doubtful I'd get on or win. I can't act! LOL!
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I haven't seen it but i believe that a lot of these shows are fake. Just like that movie about the game shows being rigged i think that's what going on today in a lot of the reality tv/game shows.
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I would rather stick my head into a blender and hit "frapee" than watch reality TV, which usually isn't as real as people think.  I watch football, which is a heckuva lot more real than reality TV.
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If you mean competing in reality shows for a prize, then ABSOLUETLY NOT! Looking at recent sites and ratings, shows like SURVIVOR, The Amazing Race, and American Idol have dominated. This shows that catfighting draws people in. I love SURVIVOR, because it is a good show and you even forget the money and you just want someone to win. Go to www.tv.com and click reality, plenty of people do not want these shows to be banned.
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The fans understand, and have understood for years, the fact that it is entertainment. Saying wrestling is fake is just the same as saying the sky is blue or that there are 12 months in a year. It's the equivalent of saying movies are fake or TV shows are fake. There's really no point in saying because everyone knows it. Pro wrestling is popular because as a form of entertainment it resonates with its fans. All popular forms of entertainment have a connection with its audience, which carries it for long periods of time. \n\nIts hard to explain to a non-wrestling fan why its so popular. Just think of why you may like a certain form of entertainment, such as a TV show or movie and think of the connection that it has with you and why you like it. That's the way wrestling fans feel about it.
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Radio reaches more people continuously through out the day( example. waking up in the morn radio alarm clocks. drives to store, work, in some offices, stores etc.)\nrepetitious commercials tend to get people to go where you want them to go.\n\nBut TV has the visual stimulation with the audio to get people to do more than radio.
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You answered the question yourself. \n\nThe audience has people planted in it to produce both the statement of pride -and- the reaction. It works in a manner similar to the way a laugh track works in a situation-comedy.  These people are "shills". Other shills also begin the boo'ing because it instigates the rest of the audience to join in: it is human nature, when in a large crowd to conform, and this is a way of manipulating the crowd to behave in a way that the producers wish them to behave.\n\nThe purpose of the show's producers is as you said; to drum up ratings. The effect is entirely artificial - they are directed to do what you see them do on the show. \n\nThey are simply pandering to the lowest common denominator - These "talk-shows" are intentionally using the agent provocateur ploy and they inflame racial tensions like this regularly when the audience has been too quiet, and reasonable lately - because a quiet audience is boring to most of the viewers... and if they get bored they channel surf to watch something new or different.\n\nBefore you start to accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist you should know this is based on verbatim descriptions from staff who work on the shows.\n\nBTW: Reality TV is similarly "set-up" and artificial. Sometimes even the news is more "drama" than reality too. You should probably realize that the media has always been about providing  spectacles and circuses going back to Roman times - to keep people from rising up against the emperor and the aristocracy. We've just changed the names of those roles in recent times.
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Most of t.v. has negative influence. Especially anything on MTV. Our culture is addicted to unhealthy living.
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Any reality show like Survivor, Big brother, the Real World, Surreal Life, etc. crams anywhere from 24 hours to a week into 22 or 44 minutes of airtime.  Editing is therefore the only thing that makes storylines come together in any semblence of reasonability.  The editors, through the producers, can make one or two comments the entire subject of a weeks show, flaunting the mayhem they cause and even ignoring reconcilliations.  Additionally, a girl who goes home with a guy from a bar every week may seem a little permiscuous in real life, but when you only see her for 20 minutes a week and 5 of those are spent hooking up with someone, she seems like an out-of-control nympho.  Producers usually do not suggest anything besides what is presented as the show's premise, and I am unaware of any instannces of scripting - since this is the basis of reality tv, I imagine it would be a very big Milli Vanilli-ish deal.  Editing, though - that's where the distortion lies.
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Come on! TV doesn't always imitate reality... How much of TV is staged, though? That's why it's important to remember that what you see on TV isn't real life even if the producers want you to believe that it is.