Source C
Willams, Davea. Spring Cleaning. Harper: Nashville, 2007. Print.
Willams, Davea. Spring Cleaning. Harper: Nashville, 2007. Print.
The following is an excerpt from a book about
removing negative influences from American media.
Reality TV is dishonest – it pretends to show “reality” but it actually distorts the truth to make money. The shows are not really “real” – they are carefully cast to get a mix of “characters,” who are not at all typical. Mostly they show a bunch of young, good-looking self-publicists, who will do anything to get on TV. Usually, the program makers try to ensure excitement by picking people who are likely to clash with each other. They then place them in unnatural situations, such as the Big Brother house or the Survivor Island, and give them strange challenges in order to provoke them into behaving oddly. Finally, the makers film their victims for hundreds of hours from all angles, but they only show the most dramatic parts. Selective editing may be used to create “storylines” in order to further manipulate the truth of what happened.