The Pros And Cons Of Reality Television

I believe that an important problem that exists with media today is television’s yearning to look like classic film. We constantly see the most popular television shows become popular because of their imitation of film. As long as trying to replicate film through the new technology of television remains the norm, we will never advance in our use of it. Along with that, the desire for television shows that fall into this category will eventually fizzle out, leaving us stranded for new content.

In reading Mark Andrejevic, I realized that our problem with reality television is not that it is immature or corny as a lot of people view it, but it’s complete separation from classical film. Reality television shows often have not only a different

When someone speaks, they are supposed to produce an uninterrupted form of speech, free of obstacles, that the listener can take in without expending any energy. The way accents and vocabulary are talked about when viewing speech through a lens of the “Conduit Metaphor” are the same ways that contest and reality television are talked about when viewing media. People often do not take this form of television seriously, and when they do, they still don’t view them as “good television.” More often than not, reality TV shows are less known and belittled more than their filmic television counterparts. Some examples of shows with a filmic still than ran for quite a while imitation of film are The West Wing, Game of Thrones, Oz and Law and Order. All of these shows mentioned had at least six seasons, with Law and Order blowing them all out of the water ending in May 2010 on its 20th season. On the other hand, a lot of reality shows have run for much longer than any of these shows mentioned and although their popularity comes in waves, more often than not they are seen as worse than the other shows that seem more like films. The Real World, a reality show that started in 1992, is now on its 32nd season, and Survivor, which started in 2000, is on its 33nd season as of this year. This shows that no matter what people say about reality T.V., the numbers show the truth and that truth is audiences enjoy reality television and seemingly always will.

Although reality T.V. is often looked down upon as a form of media that is less than other sorts of television, Andrejevic