I speak as someone who has worked with tv media years ago when I was PR director for a large corporation-------------if you are living in a house along with 24/7 multiple cameras and light screens and tv people and etc and supposedly are carrying on a day-to-day life, I really don't think you can call it "reality". Now if you have a house totally bugged with video cameras and no intrusive camera crews and etc, then maybe you can call it something like "real time action" but if you know everything you are doing and saying is being recorded, is that really going to produce "reality". I don't think so. ANd if this so called "reality" is going to keep people watching, there has to be some kind of drama and that probably has to be "manufactured" by the producers to keep the thing going. Having a tv crew in my house 24/7 isn't going to do much for so called "reality". And while I have to admit I have never watched these programs, what kind of people would let this happen in their lives for their "15 minutes of fame" ? Are they well paid for this? or is the "fame" the carrot??
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