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Media Uses the Best Reality TV Shows to Misdirect the Masses. While We Stare Helplessly Captivated by Their Media Circus, Elite Rulers Take Over the Real World.

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The best reality TV shows may end up being the end of television as we know it. Like any medium, television can be a wonderful way to learn, but global elite run media are used to indoctrinate and distract Americans.

But like any other medium, it can also be reduced to entertain the lowest common denominator in our society.

Appeal to the basic human desire to watch a ”train wreck” and you will prosper in the field of reality television it seems. Even the best reality TV shows are the television equivalent of tabloids.

Cheap to produce, filled with unreal situations and comprised of out and out lies, reality TV has taken over the airwaves in the last couple of years.

Reality TV allows studios, producers, and networks to circumvent the writer’s and actor’s guilds. They do not need to take hiatuses for the actors to break , require the most basic of writing, and can constantly be in production.

All that is needed to make a hit reality TV show is a premise which brings out the competitive, vindictive, and selfish nature in people, a few cameras, and some clever editors.

No matter how bad we consider reality TV to be, the people have spoken. American Idol, while no more than a glorified talent contest, is by far the most popular in the genre.

In a sad commentary on American values during the 2006 season 63 million people voted for the show’s winner. In our most recent election, which had abnormally high voter turn out, 62.98 million people voted for President Obama.

Had that been a election with normal turnout rates it would have been much lower. Who leads the world’s most powerful nation and who wins a talent contest seem to have the same amount of interest.

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Little Reality in Reality TV

The best reality TV shows, and by that I mean the most popular, concoct situations that are unrealistic and would never happen in reality.

One of the pioneers of the reality TV genre, MTV’s ‘The Real World’, is a perfect example of this.

The show takes young adults and puts them in multi-million dollar houses, gives them money for food and partying and turns the cameras on. Where does this really happen in reality?

When combining immature, ignorant and self centered personalities isn’t enough to generate enough drama for an entertaining show, producers will actually write out, or script, a reality TV show.

One of the best reality TV shows for MTV was ”Laguna Beach” which followed the trials and tribulations of rich teens in Orange County California.

The show is famous for it’s scripting and horrible acting by it’s ”reality” stars. It was so successful it spawned sequels and launched the ‘careers’ of several reality TV ”stars”.

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Negative Effects

Reality TV shows promote the cult of celebrity that has taken over our national attention.

The best reality TV shows create stars out of narcissistic, self-centered personalities who are famous just for being picked by producers on these shows. This is what keeps the money rolling in.

It also propagates the idea of ‘instant gratification’ that so many people in this country fall victim to. Why go to school and work hard when you can win American Idol?

What’s the point to sacrificing when all you have to do is out scheme other contestants on ‘Survivor’?

Like most other offerings from the media, reality TV is there to distract us from what is really going on in our world.

Your average person cares more about who got voted off ”Dancing with the Stars” than what violations our government is committing against freedom and liberty here and abroad.

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