The Reality within Reality TV Shows

The creation of television broadcasting changed the way the world interacted, making it one of the most successful and important innovation. The Entertainment industry brought Reality TV to America, changing and evolving along with the changes in society. The concept of Reality TV is to show the struggles of real people or actors without scripts, surprising, and terrifying many of its viewers. The television content has changed over the years reflecting the changes in society; the Reality Shows are becoming more obscene, controversial, and competitive.

For example, the television network industry has dramatically changed the lifestyle, and concept of television in America, with its content becoming more controversial. The network began experiencing with shows that needed to newer, original, and amusing at that time. Candid Camera was a Reality TV show, founded and hosted by Allen Funt in august 10, 1948. The show consisted in hoaxes devised by producers in which the victims were caught unprepared, in confusing Situations that. Every episode consisted in different hoaxes, along with different people in which the audience had no way of knowing what would be broadcasted. For example, an unwitting victim might get caught in a boycott without noticing, or a fake job interview, all while the cameras were rolling. The show focused in making pranks that were intended to laugh at the response and reactions of the victims, without targeting their dignity or humiliating them. Americans wanted pleasant entertainment for their kids, other shows were seeing as unnecessary and obscene, though this view was slowly changing and ending. In the 1960s America's youth was rebelling just about everything, the youth wanted to redefine Ameri...

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...re violent and disrespectful to their parents. Young people are losing the values that they were taught by their family, they no longer look at the inner beauty of people, they only look at the physical beauty. Further, young children tend to glorify superficial, and controversial characters in this programs. Instead of important people who make this world better. It has come to the point where winning the science fair, or discovering a new star to be less important to who has eaten the biggest bug in the world.

Whether reality TV ultimately fades into television history or continues to evolve along with society with the medium as a unique genre, it's up to the audience. The society must change, and begin to educate young children, communicate and support them. This will help and demonstrate that fifteen minutes of fame isn't all what it cracks up to be.