MANILA‚ Philippines - Last Wednesday‚ I was invited to speak at a forum in Miriam College on the positive and negative sides of reality TV. Psychiatrist Randy Dellosa and reality TV host Paolo Abrera (of ?Hired?) were in the panel as well. Reality television‚ as defined by Wikipedia‚ is ?a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations‚ documents actual events‚ and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Such shows frequently
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When television was first brought to the public‚ it had an idea of entertaining education. However‚ throughout the decades TV has transformed from entertaining education to just entertainment. Today‚ TV has very few educational programs in comparison to the number of purely inane entertainment programs on the majority of channels. I’ve done own my research and found out that TV has several negative impacts on the development of young children. There are three major negative impacts: physiological
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1. * The 2009‚ the American Time Use Survey Summary conducted by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics stated that Americans‚ 15 and over‚ spend an average of 2.8 hours per day watching television. Businesses that use TV as an advertising medium to promote their product or service receive valuable air time that reaches countless viewers. However‚ many disadvantages exist as well. Larger Audience Pool * You can reach a larger amount of people
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television. Some of them are: we have stopped taking the world around us seriously because of television‚ it delivers mindless entertainment‚ which sensationalize some absurd issues and we amuse ourselves with them and most of the programs that are aired on TV lack quality content. Researchers from all across the world are conducting several investigations to find out the influence of television on our intelligence. People of all age groups and diverse backgrounds have been involved in these researches
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head dolls‚ shirts‚ water bottles‚ and even a book titled “Gym‚ Tanning‚ Laundry: The Official Jersey Shore Quote Book.” (“Jersey Shore”) So where did this idea of reality TV come from? How many kinds of different reality TV are out there and why is this is overwhelmingly popular? Topic 1: What is reality TV? Reality TV is any unscripted program that shows real people‚ not actors or athletes in a specific environment. Characters are real people Not filmed on a set but natural living or
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In “The Distorting Mirror of Reality TV” written by Sarah Coleman‚ says that the producers have a distorting mirror to us as viewers. All producers distort all stereotypes and want the viewers to know what life is really like because of human diversity. Coleman states that the producers choose particular contestants‚ and the producers are making the chosen contestants are playing particular characters that the producers want them to be Coleman states “For ethnic minorities‚ old people‚ the unbeautiful
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listen to complaints while “communicating” with it. Television has the power to alter society. Whether we realize it or not‚ what we watch and listen to stays in our brains for many years. But “what is reality television?” one might ask. Reality TV is defined by MSN Encarta as “television programs that present people in live‚ though often deliberately manufactured‚ situations and monitor their emotions and behavior.” Television is filled with a variety of shows. The variety ranges from cartoons
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Manipulating Reality Surprisingly‚ reality TV lacks on one important factor that reality TV should incorporate‚ and that is reality. Many television programs full of high entertainment and creativity are full of lies and as well. Most television producers and directors edit conversations and persuade the stars to make certain decisions. Although there is no written script for the show‚ that doesn’t stop TV workers from altering reality. LifeTime’s popular reality TV program about the life of a competitive
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SATELLITE TV: THE CRYSTAL BALL THAT OPENED NEW NARRATIVES OF REALITY Abstract The world around us is being constantly studied‚ analysed‚ made ‘sense’ of‚ categorised‚ named and assigned meaning. This human endeavour invariably leads to the formation of the amorphous entity called ‘Reality’. The introduction of Satellite TV channels and the introduction of 24 hours News channels that broadcast directly into millions of households around the world‚ without little or no State control has led to the
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