Comments on: Fox Gets Caught Manipulating Footage by The Daily Show, Yet Ratings Still Soar http://www.muckmakers.com/fox-gets-caught-manipulating-footage-by-the-daily-show-yet-ratings-still-soar/ Highlighting the scandals you may have missed. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: MTV’s True Life Is as Far from the Truth as Most Television Is | MuckMakers.comhttp://www.muckmakers.com/fox-gets-caught-manipulating-footage-by-the-daily-show-yet-ratings-still-soar/comment-page-1/#comment-5135 MTV’s True Life Is as Far from the Truth as Most Television Is | MuckMakers.com Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:12:33 +0000 http://www.muckmakers.com/?p=1702#comment-5135 [...] in Entertainment Whether you admit it or not, pretty much everyone has thought about what it would be like to be on TV. And with the rise of reality TV, the possibility of that five minutes of fame has only grown. MTV was one of the first channels in America to popularize the concept of following around everyday people with The Real World, which, of course, was about as authentic as their interest in music. By purposely selecting roommates who would not get along and carefully orchestrating conflict behind the scenes, the show became irresistible to watch no matter how fabricated its “unscripted” content was; hours and hours of footage painstakingly edited down to just a few moments of juicy drama and out-of-context theatrics. This formula has been applied to almost all of MTV and VH1’s programming now, and reality TV continues to dominate ratings on almost every channel. But is this because Americans have an endless desire to see themselves on screen or because corporate tools want to mold our lives into the preconceived narrative they’ve laid out for us? [...] [...] in Entertainment Whether you admit it or not, pretty much everyone has thought about what it would be like to be on TV. And with the rise of reality TV, the possibility of that five minutes of fame has only grown. MTV was one of the first channels in America to popularize the concept of following around everyday people with The Real World, which, of course, was about as authentic as their interest in music. By purposely selecting roommates who would not get along and carefully orchestrating conflict behind the scenes, the show became irresistible to watch no matter how fabricated its “unscripted” content was; hours and hours of footage painstakingly edited down to just a few moments of juicy drama and out-of-context theatrics. This formula has been applied to almost all of MTV and VH1’s programming now, and reality TV continues to dominate ratings on almost every channel. But is this because Americans have an endless desire to see themselves on screen or because corporate tools want to mold our lives into the preconceived narrative they’ve laid out for us? [...]

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