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Lies Behind All Reality TV Shows Are Examined by Many People. The New World Order Uses Mind Control Programming in the Mass Media to Keep People Distracted from Tyranny.

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Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the term reality television is most commonly used to describe programs of this genre produced since 2000.

All reality tv shows cover a wide range of programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (such as Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother.

Such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen sometimes manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques.

Reality television has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, at least for a short period

This is most notable in talent-search programs such as the Idol series, which has spawned music stars in many of the countries in which it has aired.

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Humiliation TV

Some have claimed that the success of all reality tv shows is due to its ability to provide schadenfreude, by satisfying the desire of viewers to see others humiliated.

Entertainment Weekly wrote, ‘Do we watch reality television for precious insight into the human condition? Please.

We watch for those awkward scenes that make us feel a smidge better about our own little unfilmed lives.’

Media analyst Tom Alderman wrote, ‘There is a sub-set of Reality TV that can only be described as Shame TV, because it uses humiliation as its core appeal.’

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Politically Speaking

Reality television’s global success has been, in the eyes of some analysts, an important political phenomenon.

The City of Grand Rapids wanted to use eminent domain to force landowners to sell property in the city identified as ”blighted,” and convey the property to owners that would develop it in ostensibly beneficial ways: in this case, to St. Mary’s Hospital, a Catholic organization.

What’s striking about most if not all reality tv shows is how good humored and resilient most of the participants are.

What finally bothers their detractors is, perhaps, not that these people are humiliated but that they are not.

In China, after the finale of the 2005 season of Super Girl (the local version of Pop Idol) drew an audience of around 400 million people, and 8 million text message votes, the state-run English-language newspaper Beijing Today ran the front-page headline ”Is Super Girl a Force for Democracy?”

The Chinese government criticized the show, citing both its democratic nature and its excessive vulgarity, or ”worldliness”, and in 2006 banned it outright.

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