《WHY REALITY TV IS GOOD FOR US 》.pdfVIP

Library Logo 标题: WHY REALITY TV IS GOOD FOR US. 作者: Poniewozik, James, Goehner, Amy Lennard, McDowell, Jeanne, Pitluk, Adam, Time, 0040781X, 2/ 17/2003, 册 161, 发行 7 数据库: Academic Search Premier WHY REALITY TV IS GOOD FOR US 部分：TELEVISION Stop whining about how prime times hottest genre is destroying America, and enjoy some great television For eight single professional women gathered in Dallas, it is holy Wednesday--the night each week that they gather in one of their homes for the Traveling Bachelorette Party. Munching snacks and passing a bottle of wine, they cheer, cry and cackle as their spiritual leader, Trista Rehn, braves heartache, indecision and the occasional recitation of bad poetry to choose from among her 25 swains. Yet something is unsettling Leah Hudsons stomach, and its not j ust the wine. I hate that weve been sucked into the Hoover vac of reality TV, says Hudson, 30. Do we not have anything better to do than to live vicariously through a bunch of 15-minute-fame seekers? There you have the essence of reality TVs success: it is the one mass-entertainment category that thrives because of its audiences contempt for it. It makes us feel tawdry, dirty, cheap--if it didnt, we probably wouldnt bother tuning in. And in this, for once, the audience and critics agree. Just listen to the raves for Americas hottest TV genre: The country is gripped by misanthropy!--New York Observer Ridiculous and pernicious! Many kinds of cruelty are passed off as entertainment!--Washington Post So-called reality television j ust may be killing the medium!--San Francisco Chronicle O.K., we added the exclamation points, but you get the idea. Yes, viewers are tuning