Reality TV

When I read the Steven Reiss' and James Wiltz's "Why People Watch Reality TV" article something drew my attention. In the article human's basic desires are categorized and explained. There is also a table that shows 16 basic motives of human with their brief explanations such as; power, curiosity, status, social contact and so on. So, reality TV is actually very smart idea to take people in front of TV because they are basically created by using the possible weak sides of human and their psychology. Reality TV shows -despite its name- does not represent the usual or "real" people as we see on the street but extreme characters who have lots of money or status which ordinary people envy them or have an extreme life-style which people are curious to learn more.

There is a remarkable description about

Reality Show in Wikipedia. "Reality television frequently portrays a modified and highly influenced form of reality, utilizing sensationalism to attract viewers to generate advertising products." So, It is not so hard to understand about these shows when It is watched that the people on these shows does not act like normal people, I think their extreme dialouges, fightings, scandals are just fiction created by producers to make some sensations to attract more and more people. However they do not realize -or do not care?- actually they are gradually leading to moral corruption in society.