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  • Essay / Reality TV: the real influence of reality TV...

    From the way we talk, to the way we act, to the way we dress, reality TV has a very strong influence on how we do all of this. We watch everything from typical TLC shows like Long Island Medium, and 19 Kids and Over, to all the competition shows like Big Brother, and X Factor and everything in between. Most of us watch it purely for entertainment purposes because for some strange reason we find it very interesting to see random celebrities doing anything, even if it's just going out to lunch. We just can't get enough of our favorite families keeping up with the Kardashians and Honey Boo Boo. And we find their lives so fascinating. A reality show is supposed to follow ordinary people and film them living their daily lives the way they always do. That’s exactly what these shows do, right? Obviously reality TV is real, no one would even dare think about the possibility that it is actually staged, edited or even scripted, or that their reactions are fake. And from the Bachelor to the Real Housewives of every city in America, there's not even a question that’...