Reality TV and the American Family

Wednesday, 06. 24. 2009  –  Category: T2 Communications

America’s interest in reality TV has encouraged a new wave of celebrity.  The most dramatic members of MTV’s The Real World were offered positions as video jockeys in the 1990s.  These days the least liked and most problematic contestants of shows like Flavor of Love and Rock of Love are given their own reality shows on VH1.  Now unwed and jobless “Octomom” Nadya Suleman, who was artificially inseminated and now has 14 kids to raise on her own, is rumored to have been offered her own reality show.  When did America start encouraging this behavior?  What ever happened to privacy and, more importantly, morals?  Now that we have been introduced to reality TV, we are not only able to watch the real lives of real people throwing fits…