Is Reality Television Really Reality?

The genre known as reality television follows the daily, "real" experiences

of average people in settings ranging from summer camps to life on a desert

island. But is it really reality? Although the people on the show are not actors or

actresses, I believe the situations are forced into drama by the producers and

directors who choose certain types of people into the show. For example, they

can put a jock, nerd, and a good girl under one house to live in for a couple of

months. Therefore, it is not really reality. The experiences that occur in every

reality show are mostly exaggerated. People are drawn to see the destruction of

another person. Watching the downfall of another may be a self-esteem booster

by getting people to reflect on their lives and realize that it may not be as bad as

they think.

The show "Survivor," for instance, took plac...