The late 1970s and early 1980s brought the audience out of the studio to capture people in real-life settings. TV newsgathering paved the path with the introduction of Sony’s videocassette format by making portable TV affordable for every television station. Westinghouse Broadcast’s Evening Magazine ultimately adapted free-ranging news style of 60 minutes into the video-based magazine show form. Entertainment Tonight, Primetime Live, and Dateline NBC are amongst a few in which the format still survives today. In four years with four different variations, newsgathering had become a staple of broadcast television. In an environment in which reality could occur, the production of Real World in 1992, proved to be a landmark series with secret cameras and setups. A combination of techniques was more crafted and
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Neither paragons nor charity cases. They’re just a bunch of warts-and-all people chasing the American Dream as hard and fast, and often as clueless, as most everyone else” (Abdul-Jabbar, TIME).
The line-up of reality television presented by the Bravo network features more African-American people than any other network besides BET. Mainstream television now possesses more shows with a character of color as the main character thanks in part to Bravo. The message presented by Bravo, but more importantly the scope of reality television as a whole is that ordinary people can become important overnight. Wealth can accumulate to any degree. The thrill to viewers of reality television is of the potential to become millionaires and celebrities overnight. How reality television has the potential to make ordinary people celebrities overnight is what will contribute most to our collective memory.
“The stories of the past presented in media, especially on television, are far more visceral than those presented in the classroom” (Edy, Journalistic Uses of Collective
Neither paragons nor charity cases. They’re just a bunch of warts-and-all people chasing the American Dream as hard and fast, and often as clueless, as most everyone else” (Abdul-Jabbar, TIME).
The line-up of reality television presented by the Bravo network features more African-American people than any other network besides BET. Mainstream television now possesses more shows with a character of color as the main character thanks in part to Bravo. The message presented by Bravo, but more importantly the scope of reality television as a whole is that ordinary people can become important overnight. Wealth can accumulate to any degree. The thrill to viewers of reality television is of the potential to become millionaires and celebrities overnight. How reality television has the potential to make ordinary people celebrities overnight is what will contribute most to our collective memory.
“The stories of the past presented in media, especially on television, are far more visceral than those presented in the classroom” (Edy, Journalistic Uses of Collective