domingo, 27 de enero de 2008

NEW TELEVISION FORMATS 'VOL I': REALITY SHOWS

In not too much occasions the same type of program can be exploited during several seasons, but the case of the 'reality show' is an exception. Its constant success tempts constantly the producers to inventing new ideas to set the next stage but with the same objective: to obtain the more shocking ideas, grotesques and specially controversial.

In its nine years of life, the 'reality show' has evolved up to unsuspected limits. Originally people in mass media was concerned about the lack of ethics in this kind of programs. Now they go too far: extreme proofs of survival and physical resistance, high degrees of capacity, absolute loss of private life ... the moral limit doesn’t exist.

The main characters of these programs are not prominent figures of science fiction. They are common persons who sell their intimacy and exhibit publicly his their human miseries in exchange for a juicy economic share. The television shows the caricature of the weakest, who for example, feels himself ugly or fat and wants to change his image. All those who take part in one 'reality show' they are used as ‘media animals’ inside of a special zoo called Television.

I leave you with a clear example and then all you could extract your own conclusions: the American channel ‘Channel 62’ chooses a marginalized social group, the Latin’s immigrants people of USA to subject them to proofs of humiliating character in exchange for legal help for one year to obtain the official card of residence.
So then… ¿Have everything a price?

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