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Friday, December 03, 2010
Reality TV is ruining America
It is no secret that I have a distaste for celebrities. I especially hate reality tv. Reality shows take the most absurd people, and turns them into objects of obsession by ordinary Americans who have nothing better than obsess over these people for no good reason. I remember when these shows first started popping up. It never seemed more than game shows. Survivor and other shows, but then they made shows that focused on people. Reality shows never were truly reality, but at some point these shows became caricatures of people. They were always made for ratings, but now they are incongruous. All these real housewives shows, the cake shows, pawn shop shows, and so many more. The shows are not good or just bad they are harmful. The show sister wives on TLC is just bad. first of all they are engaged in illegal activity. TLC, which stands for The Learning Channel, is almost nothing but reality shows. The channel has little if any education based shows. All that channel is, is cake shows, kate plus 8, tattoo parlor shows. How does any of that help anyone learn? The history channel is also guilty of this. They have shows like IRT deadliest roads, Ice road truckers, Pawn Stars, and American Pickers. These shows have the weakest connection to history I have ever heard in my life. These two channels and many more have sold their integrity for rating and in TV that means money. We are all doing this. reality shows create celebrities who are famous for being famous. Now the average person just wants to be famous because that is how you become someone in our culture rather than achieving something of scientific, political, or cultural significance they would rather be on some show and make a fool of themselves for money. Case in point the Situation. He was on that show dancing with the stars, I heard he has a book deal, and makes more money, doing absolutely nothing, than I will possibly ever see. Celebrity is turning Americans into a people who have no interest in things that actually advance society. The worst part is that celebrity is fusing with politics. Politicians are the people who lead our nation. True they have their character flaws, everyone does. I just expected politicians or at least the office to be above that. Sarah Palin has a show in TLC, and Elliot Spitzer is on CNN I think. Sarah Palin regardless of your feeling toward her, is wanted by a lot of people to run for President. The president should never have a reality show. I see the tabloids featuring articles on both president Bush and Obama. I would hope they would be removed from this cult of celebrity. Hollywood is moving toward politicians, and Politicians are moving toward celebrity. At some point they might clash. I would hate to think that someone could become president one day because they were thrust into the spot light because of some show. While the celebrities have always been politicians from time to time that was more of a move from one sphere to the other. Not with people like Palin, it is more like they inhabit both worlds. They are are becoming one it seems. That is why Reality TV is ruining America.
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(1) Haven't been here in awhile. Love the new layout.
(2) Lemme guess. You don't like reality TV. I hate it too. I try to watch an episode of this or that, but I find them all quite boring. It's bad enough that we'r a spectator nation as far as sports are concern. Now it seems a sizeable portion of the populaion wants other people to live out their lives for them as well.
I would agree that they are often more contrived than written shows. They often cater to prejudices by playing contestants to stereotype. They're really only on because their overhead is so low that it doesn't take a large audience to make them profitable.
At the same time, I wouldn't say that reality tv is ruining America. I thin it represents or illustrates some of the challenges that the nation faces (e.g., a lack of public support for arts so that only commercial approaches can exist in media such as television; the narrowcasting that divides audiences so thoroughly that we're raising a generation that has no cultural language in common, and thus can't communicate with each other because of the echo chamber effects of their markets; there's the coded and unconscious racism in all aspects of dominant narrative and discourse). I would say that there are other challenges that might be more urgent--but not that much more urgent.
WOW X. Dell you made my point much more elegantly than I did I agree we don't support the arts enough I make it an effort to support them just because. I don't know how to correct this problem that we have. I think the government's attitude and how easily offended people have become has created a situation where the arts are dangerous to promote, and when that happens your average american loses a grasp of how important the arts are to our culture. Great comment thank you.
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