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Have you ever wondered what TV does to children? Or to be more specific, the effects that Reality TV have on children. I have always wondered why my mom wouldn’t let me watch certain shows or movies and now I have a clearer understanding of why. “The Impact of Reality Shows on Children” written by Kevin Bliss was posted on LiveStrong.com and has a message to parents about their children and reality TV. They don’t support it nor do they reject it, they more or less tell you how to handle the…

What is the point of watching “Reality TV” when it’s not even considered reality? Why do several of us buy into the idea that reality TV resembles reality in any way, shape or form? There are countless questions about reality TV that we might never know the answer to. The producers of reality Tv shows, practically have us wrapped around their finger, making us believe whatever we hear and notice. Utmost people are clueless about what is real and what isn’ t, this is just the way we think.…

them to bond and hopefully win challenges and eventually win the grand prize of a million dollars. One of the most important aspects of Survivor, and life itself, is decision making. Decision making is evident in every episode of Survivor, just like it is in our daily lives and workplaces. Decision making, in Survivor, has some similarities to it with our textbook and specifically chapter 10. One of the main concepts of chapter 10 is the ideas of “groupthink” and intuition.…

Reality tv is the pure act of drama, it doesn't exactly contain any reality in its shows. Usually there's a lot of editing and scripting in these shows. The producers like to keep the audience entertained. The producer also knows the audience they are targeting. Studies for the girl scout research institute have revealed that teenagers and children are the demographic for reality tv. They become easily influenced by what they watch and listen to. This can influence foul language ,negative…

important as they challenge traditional cinema and struggle to find an approach to best present the reality in situations. According to Bignel (2005:66) these two different traditions hold two key components of contemporary Reality TV. While the first one is the related to the subjects-ordinary people or celebrities living the “ordinary” way (subjects which aligning to the two traditions were either instructed that the camera will (should) make no interventions in the situation -the American…

A) When Reality TV Gets To Real By Victor Weimar Gade Summary of When Reality TV Gets Too Real by Jeremy W. Peters In the text When Reality TV Gets Too Real, Jeremy W. Peters discuss the ethics in not intervening in possibly unsafe situations happening on reality television. He lists up quite a few incidents, about the immoral actions and various crimes that have been taking place in different Reality programs. Some of the vaster crimes shown in the episodes are drunk driving, which have been…

The irony in reality television is that often what it represents in its programming is completely opposite to reality. Fabricated drama and larger than life personalities give us what we want in our lives, not reflecting what is our “real life”. Mike Wilson’s article ‘Life’s too short for reality TV’ appearing in ‘The Age’ on the 8th of July 2011 contends that reality television by nature is completely oppositional to what its name suggests. Wilson employs a sarcastic, contemplative and at times…

have to sit and talk with their teenagers . Reality Tv really reveals inappropriate behavior within your peer groups because it sometimes cause drama between you and your friends for example, the women on bad girls club they turn out to be friends and next thing you know they turn their back on each other just so that they can be famous and they do the most stupidest thing you’ll ever see , they have too much sex appeal in the reality…

Kruse (2010), argues that the imaginary is not created alone through the text of TV crime dramas, but is impacted by a viewer’s subjectivity, life experiences, educations, political views, and personal fantasies. Kruse maintains that TV dramas, such as CSI, tainted by the viewer specific position within society, may provide the viewer with the justification for their world view, cause them to reflect on their lives, position, or politics, or be nothing more than mere entertainment. In Kruse’s…

lawsuits have come about insults of reality television. For example, “Graves v. Warner Bros and Williams v. ABC, brought reality television network liability into the forefront of the media.” This case came about from ABC tv show The Jenny Jones Show. One of the cast members, Jonathon Schmitz shot and killed another cast member, Scott Amedure. After Schmitz was convicted of murder, in retaliations, Amedure’s parents filed suit against Warner Brothers, the producer of the show, for its “ambush”…