James Poeniewoziv Vs Television Analysis

In the Time’s article, “Why Reality TV Is Good for Us,” author James Poniewozik discusses the rapid growth of reality television shows, as well as their recent popularity and success. According to Poniewozik, reality shows involve a huge chunk of the entertainment industry that succeeds because of their audiences’ astonishment and disgust regarding the exaggerated events that take place on the shows (Poniewozik) The article opens up by introducing a group of eight women, known as “The Traveling Bachelorette Party,” having a small get-together on a Wednesday night to watch one of their favorite reality shows, The Bachelorette. Together they watch, cry, admire, and laugh as the star of the show must experience love, lust, and heart ache in

As explained in the article, the sudden disinterest in sitcoms is not only a result of their bland nature, but also the mass amounts of remakes and weak storylines. In contrast, reality shows are portraying drama-filled, human connecting stories in order to provide crazy entertainment unlike anything else seen on television before. Poniewozik points out that while they do capture the attention of tens of millions of viewers, reality shows quickly run out of time, resources, and ideas. Then, it is only a matter of time before a new reality show takes its place, simply adding to the surplus of reality television (Poniewozik). In the Time’s article, “Why Reality TV Is Good for Us,” James Poniewozik attempts to discuss the rapid growth and popularity of reality television shows, but the author’s poor organizational structure, use of dialogue, failure to unify the theme, and the presence of his point of view, leave the article sounding incomplete and without

Throughout the article, a variety of information is presented, all of which involves opposing perspectives. At the beginning of the article, the group of women Poniewozik introduces are described as being extremely emotional towards the reality show they are watching, only to be questioning the point of reality shows by the end of the paragraph. Then, the author discusses the success of reality shows, which is followed by a series of quotations from outside sources describing how awful and disgusting reality television shows are. Finally, by the end of the article, Poniewozik is once again trying to explain the success of reality shows, but this time he is blaming it on sitcoms (Poniewozik). To readers the article could have been about a variety of things, such as why reality shows are worthless, how reality shows are so successful, or even the effects sitcoms and reality shows have on each other. Yet, the title of the article is “Why Reality TV Is Good for Us,” and even though the author covers a wide range of topics involving reality television, he fails to explain how each topic is connected and how it relates to the title. Therefore, by the end of the article, readers are likely questioning what exactly the article was trying to accomplish due to Poniewozik’s inability to unify the