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Reality TV: More Mirror Than Window |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: Richard Breyer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,171 Words, 13,125 Characters |
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Click on to any Internet search engine (Google, Ask Jeeves), type in the words reality television, and you'll find a thousand Web sites and articles about this subject. Reality television is big. It's seen by millions and discussed, critiqued, chatted about, and hyped by hundreds of thousands. Some critics are convinced that Big Brother, Survivor, and Road Rules represent a very negative trend by exposing contestants' private lives; some even see parallels with pornography. "The underlying themes are themes of humiliation and degradation. And it's part of a general trend in our culture towards making the private public," says Frank Farley, past president of the American Psychological Association. Others see the genre as an example of American democracy at its best. You can become an Americ...
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...his genre to be preceded with "The following may be hazardous to your health?" Is reality TV the crack cocaine of what critic Marie Winn calls the "plug-in drug?" My answer is yes, when addicts' distorted views of reality make it impossible for them to function in the world outside the tube. Why meet the neighbors when we have the Osbournes? Why take that trip out West? Survivor is on at 9:00.
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