Reed's D Band Media Log

Real T.V. or not really T.V.

The disadvantages of watching reality TV far out way the advantages in this new generation. Although we get a look into to how human relationships are developed and maintained, how sure can we be that reality TV is as real as it claims to be. On this season of the CBS show "Survivor" it just so happens that a big giant man and the woman who can speak Spanish, in a country that speaks predominantly Spanish, are on the same team and further more on the same show. Reality television is very undependable. There is no guarantee that the fights arguments and straight up and down human conditions are not arranged. It just so happened that the small town, race fearing, orphan, close minded white girl on MTV's "The Real World" also was dead broke with a very expensive diseease.

The very idea of watching human struggle is very intriguing to the average Joe working irregular hours and really has no time on his hands to be devoted to a show will alter his entire sheudule to find out who the "Bachorlette" gave her heart out to. The anxiety that people face if they have missed just one espisode of a reality TV that they are addicted to can be compared to that of the early 90s house wife missing an episode of her favorite soap opera. People are saying what the hell with the very much staged sitcom and are opening their arms to reality TV.

In this day in age where parents are so busy working, children are having more and more freedoms, the TV has become more than a staple but a need for the modern child. Children are put in front of TVs where there is no longer a super hero but a man in a cut up armani suit calling him self a leader("Survivor"). Reality TV leaves no room for imagination, when children want to think about things that have yet to experience, all they have to turn the TV and see how to date someone("Blind Date'), they can see how it is to date alot of people.

Is this our mark on the world? Is this is the way our generation wants to be remembered.