All a
teacher has to do to get students attention on the first day is to
bring up a reality TV show.
All a
teacher has to do to get students attention on the first day is to
bring up a reality TV show.
“Did you
see what she did,” “If I was her, I would have…” are popular lines
you hear in every conversation amongst a group about reality
TV.
It seems
everyone revolves their time and day around reality TV and I think
people become as ignorant as the reality TV star they love so much
portrays. Personally, I believe reality TV is a waste of
time.
If many
people would look up the history of it, you would read that there
was a time where females were not throwing drinks on each other and
men and women were not fighting for the love of some
celebrity.
Let’s
rewind for a second. When reality TV started back in
the 1940s, it was mainly game shows and
candid camera shows like recent
times, “Punk’d” and
“Disaster Date.”
But the
real issue with reality TV now all started in 1992 when MTV aired,
“The RealWorld.” Seven strangers picked
to live in a house for three months and have their lives taped for
the world to see weekly.
This has
started a disaster for all mankind as reality TV is up and coming.
As years progressed reality TV has taken the turn for the bad as
everyone is waiting for next week’s episode to see who is
fighting.
It also
started a long line of ignorant reality TV shows that surround
individuals making a fool of themselves just to make a quick
buck.
You can
ask anyone, whether they are in grade school, college, alumni, and
even parents, reality TV has taken over many people’s lives one
specific night of the week.
Rearranging my work schedule to
make sure that I get home in enough time to watch “Basketball
Wives” on Monday and “Bad Girls Club” on Tuesday, makes many
individuals become junkies of the reality TV world.
Tweeting
every line, and aspect of the episode and forming (#teams) on
Twitter to show who they support, it only makes viewers show their
ignorance as well.
Networks
such as MTV, BET
and VH1 were mostly focused
on music from which they started. But knowing that reality TV shows
are the new pandemics, they all got the “lets get ratings” disease.
Every time you turn around, a new show is premiering. As time
continues, we see new shows coming on and they exceed the old ones
with more ignorance, drama, and stupidity.
Let’s see
if these shows uphold the legacy and give us more to talk
about.
I just
wish a conversation about Gadhafi,
Hurricane Irene or the recent earthquake could be more important
instead of coming second to, “did you see Tami smack
Meeka?”
- Erik Veal, Online Editor