How Does Rtv Create Fake Democracy

RTV grew significantly since 90's. Most today's channels have some kind of reality TV program on their schedule. When I was a child, later teenager I would have MTV channel on every day. It did not matter what I was doing at the moment: homework, chores or spending time with friends, I would always listen to the music. As of now all you can see there are different shows like "Jersey Shore", "The Real Life" and many more. These programs are cheap to produce (no need to pay actors) and people without any talent, eager to participate in them are easy to find. For few minutes of fame, money and popularity participants are ready to do anything, even humiliate themselves. RTV vary: from wife swaps, teen moms struggles, addiction problems to glamorous and reach people life's. You can find literally everything. Audience thinks it's a real life due to lack of script (even they realize participants are being manipulated or instructed how to behave).

Prose makes references to the show "Survivor", based on backstabbing, competition, lack of remorse and fake friendships. Participants create tribes to help each other, but at the end there can be only one winner. Once a week the survivors meet up and vote on who should stay and who should go, which creates fake democracy. Compassion, altruism do not exist and …show more content…
Values like happy family and morales like honesty aren't so important. These could be even portrayed as a sign of weakness. It seems that the picture perfect life society is to strive for has been swapped for dysfunctional self-view and greediness. Alcohol, aggressive behavior and sex with multiple partners is being glorified, and there is no consequences to a bad behavior. Of course not everybody who watches RTV acts the same way, but why are people find this kind of behavior so interesting and