Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
But reality television is here to stay.
Reality TV is anything but.