2008 Woodie Awards
Too much reality TV affecting your reality
Kristen Arata
Issue date: 9/29/05 Section: Opinion
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We are forced into reality television by lazy unimaginative cheap producers. Too many reality shows are ruining our television experience. What's next, "How I Pick My Nose: A day in the Life of a Nose Digger?"
Television producers have taken the easy route. Actors are expensive, but why is it that anyone can be on television nowadays?
Producers ploy to get participants: If you're disgusting, are willing to do anything for money, are excited about embarrassing yourself, and your family name, then we want you to star in our next reality show. Wow! Just step right up, and view the world of stupidity, and see uninventive producers inviting idiotic people to take part in a ridiculous show.
What happened to all the hilarious and thought-provoking sitcoms of the past? According to Karen F. Balkin's article on www.enotes.com/reality-tv-article, television networks are getting wealthy off unscripted shows because they do not have to pay writers. For example, it costs about $750,000 per episode to produce a reality TV show versus the popular sitcoms that can run up to $3 million.
Participants can be harmed physically performing various stunts, or humiliated and emotionally abused from their tragic failure of not winning.
These new morals can crush our healthy self-confidence and the reality shows to blame for this are, "America's Next Top Model" and "Extreme Makeover." How many times do we need to see a stick walking on the runway, supposedly representing the fashion needs of every woman?
As for "Extreme Makeover," this show informs men and women that we have to strive for perfection, and through surgery, we can have confidence, and success can be obtained by the means of beauty. Who has the right to define beauty? What makes a person beautiful, their physical appearance? I beg to differ, this is what we have been exposed to since our childhood, through magazines, books, and other media. Beauty comes from within and bursts out of us through our personality and good-hearted nature.
Television producers have taken the easy route. Actors are expensive, but why is it that anyone can be on television nowadays?
Producers ploy to get participants: If you're disgusting, are willing to do anything for money, are excited about embarrassing yourself, and your family name, then we want you to star in our next reality show. Wow! Just step right up, and view the world of stupidity, and see uninventive producers inviting idiotic people to take part in a ridiculous show.
What happened to all the hilarious and thought-provoking sitcoms of the past? According to Karen F. Balkin's article on www.enotes.com/reality-tv-article, television networks are getting wealthy off unscripted shows because they do not have to pay writers. For example, it costs about $750,000 per episode to produce a reality TV show versus the popular sitcoms that can run up to $3 million.
Participants can be harmed physically performing various stunts, or humiliated and emotionally abused from their tragic failure of not winning.
These new morals can crush our healthy self-confidence and the reality shows to blame for this are, "America's Next Top Model" and "Extreme Makeover." How many times do we need to see a stick walking on the runway, supposedly representing the fashion needs of every woman?
As for "Extreme Makeover," this show informs men and women that we have to strive for perfection, and through surgery, we can have confidence, and success can be obtained by the means of beauty. Who has the right to define beauty? What makes a person beautiful, their physical appearance? I beg to differ, this is what we have been exposed to since our childhood, through magazines, books, and other media. Beauty comes from within and bursts out of us through our personality and good-hearted nature.