Resisting the Craving:When TV Goes Too Far
...mes devote their time to reality television in a futile attempt to fill that particular void; consequently, these individuals may feel “whole” again or the reality TV only leaves them craving more. Reality TV is built on the foundations of exposing and exciting human emotions. In this aspect reality TV has successfully portrayed human passion. The cameras have captured all features of being humans. For example, Survivor consists mainly of emotions associated with survival, leadership, the failure and success as co-operating as a team. The cameras have successfully conveyed to the audience all these emotions, and the stories connected with these emotions. There is no doubt that reality TV presents the viewers with small aspects of real life. Reality TV provides the viewers with true conflicts and emotions that have been felt. However, in the attempt to portray all traits of real life, I believe reality TV often fails. There are many Resisting the Craving: When TV Goes Too Far contributing factors to this failure. There is the reality that like any show, reality TV’s goal is to obtain and keep viewers. With only an approximate hour of television each week it is difficult to include all stories. Therefore storylines and parts are often cut out, edited or deleted. This not only helps by keeping the show to the hour, it also is used to obtain the most interesting show. By doing this TV stations secure viewers and can get more advertising money. The result is we don’t always hear the absolute truth to any story. Some aspects of reality TV are cut because they threaten our idea about a character. For example in Big Brother there may be a character that is disliked and is receiving many phone votes. Big brother would not like to show a good side of this character because it may sabotage the phone votes; therefore to secure money Big Brother will only show footage making the There may be a major dilemma in a situation, this may cause the cameras to neglect other parts of the situation, and therefore we are not receiving the full story. With many barriers forbidding the truthful story to be told it is unlikely that we are ever receiving the full story. If we are not receiving the truths then what are we receiving? In my opinion we are receiving a car...