Discussion of the Morality of Reality Television

Discussion of the Morality of Reality Television

Reality TV is were you get to watch members of the public or

celebrity's perform tasks to win money or raise money for charity, at

least that is what people say they go on it for. Reality TV is more so

to do with gaining or upgrading the contestants celebrity status and

there is no denying it, look what happened with peter André or Jade

Goody, neither of them won their reality TV show but they are now both

well known celebrities. Reality TV is extreamly popular with 10

million people tuning in every week, but why? And is it ok to watch

what most people consider "private time". I personally think it Is bad

TV because of the mindlessness of it, but people who take part in it

know what they are signing up for and you dot have to watch it if you

don't like it.

10 million people watch it every week to find out what is happening to

their favourite reality TV characters, so there must be some appeal to

it. I suppose you could say it appeals to everyone because it is real

people, with no scripts and am unpredictable, but it doesn't appeal to

me so I suppose you cant. I think the kind of people who like it are

the kind of people who want to know what people are really like behind

the face they put on, or nosy people. Then the people who don't like

it are people who don't care much for watching people sit around

talking. I also think people like to watch it because they like to

think they are in control, this is backed up when Peter Bazalgette-

the producer of big brother says 'now the viewers are in charge. They

can flick their zapper in an instant, they can vote with there

fingertips'.

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...ey choose what they say on the TV from what

they said that day, kind of like multiple-choice scripts. So really it

is the editors that choose what the people say and the producers that

encourage the contestants to say it, I admit that it isn't as easy as

what I make it out to be but that is the basic element of what is

going on.

In conclusion I think that reality TV is all a bit fake because of how

much the producers and editors have to do with it, and I will continue

to disagree with it and refuse to watch it. So I guess you can say I

think it isn't morally rite, but I don't think it is so morally

degrading it should be taken off the air because the people who go on

it know what they are signing up for and how humiliating it can be so

it is there own fault if anything embarrassing happens to them on

national TV.