The Importance Of Reality Television On Society

Register to read the introduction… To her, it’s all about ethics and recent reality television is clearly not making a good impact on anyone who watches. She rips apart anyone who takes part in these shows and says that they “are amateurs who may have been chosen for their fragility and instability” (225). With this being said it’s clear that these so-called “real” people are in fact actually not genuine at all. Although most people just watch reality TV and laugh at the way they cruelly mock individuals who participate, Prose feels some people will not be able to make the clear enough judgment to realize that it is all fake, and instead let what they see on television drown their morals and ideas into something fake, like the shows their …show more content…
In only very few cases reality TV helps individuals, but mostly just makes fools out of them. In “VH1’s New York Goes To Hollywood,” a young woman trying to make it big and become an actress gets the chance to be followed around by cameras in Hollywood and does irrational things to try and become famous. The show follows all her drama from boyfriends to fights with her mother and in the specific episode I watched, she gets into her last fight with a current “finance”. The whole show was a waste of time, and just portrayed her as someone who craves attention, from the way she expresses herself, to the way she dresses. She is only on TV after previously being on a show called “Flavor of Love” which was also another one of VH1’s reality shows. On it she fought physically and mentally against many other girls to try and win the heart of rapper Flavor Flave. This can give off the impression that by being on a reality television show that you compete and win you will become famous and make something of yourself. In a sense this is true but to whose standards? Shows like this can clearly make a name for you, but who wants to become famous from something like “winning” a competition for Flavor Flave’s …show more content…
Since reality television will keep coming out with more and more ideas for shows every day the only thing people can do is take in the real message behind the fake roles and competitions. To know that it is fake and unreal and no decent people should follow what they see on reality TV and bring it to real life. So when watching this kind of entertainment people just need to keep in mind that it shouldn’t be taken seriously, and I believe most people do. As long as families keep positive morals, and look past what is on television, reality TV will remain what it is,