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Essay / Reality Bites Back: Guilty Pleasure Analysis - 818
Reality Bites Back, Guilty Pleasure Analysis Human beings need their pleasures for a daily need to be fulfilled, whether guilty or no, the pleasure is there. In Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer Pozner, we cross the point where reality TV has taken our guilty pleasure to another level. Television is one of the centers of attention of all Americans at any given time of the day or week, and allows us to visualize what we watch to become a consumption of our lives and our opinions. Jennifer's goal is to get readers to examine our social trends with an analytical lens so people don't dismiss what they see as meaningless, and her goal is not to stop these activities, but to understand what we see and look at. TV.Pozner goes into depth about how reality TV today affects his opinions, which in turn also affect the rest of society. His 10 years of experience definitely gives him an idea of what readers will likely have seen over the years. She does a good job of pointing out things that people don't know about the shows they watch, as she states that "100% of the time, less than 1% is actually on." She's talking about something I've agreed on for a long time: which is the "storyline" aspect of how reality TV can actually play out. People only need one dramatic moment and scene for the 1% of camera time that will be broadcast, which gives us a false sense of reality when these shows are created over long periods of time. She also mentions the ability to merge words to make it seem like the contestants are saying something specific, which also gives us a false sense of what competition shows are really like. All these things are in the middle of paper... ...whether it's reality TV or not. In conclusion, Reality Bites Back was a well written read that Pozner did very well in exploring the things you can read about when you look at where our cultural behavior is evolving from. It is clear that it comes from what we see and experience to what extent people will evolve socially, and television and media have their influence on all our life experiences. This is something that we need to be aware of when we look at things that will impact us and the young people that we need to shape into these values. This gives value to the idea that we can make change through education and realizing what we see, and passing it on to others. It must be a collection of these ideas and realizations among most of us to ensure that we can become more aware of the positive changes and the degrading changes..