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Originally Posted by Junkenstein
You just enetered one of the most dreary and soul shredding discussion ever D. I totally agree with you but get ready for gems like "No! Tv has shaped your conception of real so you mispewrceive what their shows as whast life really is!" and other intellectual babble.
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To such daring scoundrels, I will answer simply that reality TV deals with culture, which is itself a phenomenon of human interaction/perception, and so the culture-perception link is not merely epistemic as it is with purely physical phenomena. Thus, our perception is the reality in some sense, and consequently so is reality TV.
I would leave it to my proponents to provide case studies, which would probably include Big Brother, The Real World, and Jersey Shore.