2. Why is it that reality t.v. is scene as truth even thought it all could very well be scripted or planned? Does the fact it is live change the situation and add that element of reality or is it something more?
Ah, so the gig is up on reality tv. You mean to say it's not all unscripted? Honestly, I don't think reality TV is seen as truth, but as a simulation of "Worst Case Scenarios" and dramatized incidents of otherwise mundane occurrences that are consistent in the environment of reality TV. It's not that our own lives are too boring to simply be filmed a la Truman Show, but that the creation of "reality" at least so that it is consistent with the hyperbolized drama of related events needs to be molded to our expectations: some sort of story line, resolutions to problems, all fitting within the commercial breaks.
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