A reality television is a genre of television programming, which exposes purposely unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documented actual events and mostly features ordinary people. The edging need to pursue a reality show has participants being promised big money and also overnight stardom. However the dark side is that the rushed stardom contestants have to often undergo tremendous psychological stress when they are humiliated for what not performing well.
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Such victims who fall under the trap are the role of enthusiastic and overzealous parents pushing their children towards stardom but what they do not consider is that the effects are scar deep as the children are ripped off from their childhood and forced to live of what is expected from them by their parents. What the audience is not aware of is that all of the footage or scenes being captured are manipulated through editing and other post production techniques.
If we take a closer look at the truth behind reality shows is that within a normal person’s life, such events are far-fetched and seem posed as they have an element of unfathomable. For instance a reality show “Keeping up with Kardashians” which is a personality Kimberley, who has ever since been looking for love and when she ‘thinks’ she has landed her knight and shinning amour which led to a divorce after 72 days of marriage and quickly moves on to dating Kanye West, with no bitter taste of licking a new flavored candy, we are left to believe that this was all a publicity stunt.
The audience is deceived as nothing we witness on television can be definitely confirmed to be as true as the reality of life.
“Let us not be deceived by what we see and envy what we do not know”
