2006-09-21 01:54:17 · 7 answers · asked by yaya 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Overall, there are many advantages and disadvantages to reality TV. Usually television is regarded as being “senseless trash that rots our brains” but some reality shows can educate the public, like the show 1900 House on PBS. This show puts a family of today into a lifestyle a century ago. Participants and viewers alike, often realize how easy life is now, and how much we take things for granted.
However, not all shows are ones that families can watch together. A program like Fear Factor where eating rats and bugs is common is not believed to be the best show for kids and family time.
2006-09-21 02:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by ????? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't show people in the middle, only those from one extreme to the other...guess that is what brings in the ratings. I can't stand reality television and do not see how it is an advantage to anyone, including the people or families portrayed on them.
An example of a disadvantage is how they portray home educating families...always one of two extremes: an isolated family who doesn't let their children outside of the house, whose children school all day and have a ton of chores and are very religious or the extreme opposite (except they isolate as well) a person who does absolutely no type of education at all and who does not discipline their children.
This is a disadvantage to the majority of home educators like myself. Home education is already negatively and wrongly stereotyped and when the choose families like that it just magnifies the stereoptype and then people, in ignorance, are like, "Yeah, I was right to think negatively about homeschoolers, just look at them!"
What you will never see are home educators with a healthy balance, who get their children out and about, have them in extra-curricular activities, get them together with their friends, have some discipline and education taking place in their home, etc. If they showed that reality, then the people swapped with might truly see the beauty of home education instead of turning their noses up with disgust at the very thought of it.
Pisses me off to no end. And the editing? Boy, do those guys no how to cut and paste a show together or what? Wonder what it would look like if left 'as is'? But that wouldn't get ratings now would it? ;-)
2006-09-21 02:04:15 · answer #2 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The disadvantage is disgruntled "actors" because of the way they are depicted and manipulated, that they don't show the "real" person. The effects are long lasting and permenant, unlike the effects upon a fictitious character, these events are affecting real people.
2006-09-21 02:03:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't really reality, so miss leading to the weak!
2006-09-21 01:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by Morgan J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The line of morality is lower and lower.... Soon we will be watching.. I don't know what... If we watch somebody's sex, toilet, if people take plastic surgeries on vision - what more can we see???
2006-09-21 10:16:05 · answer #5 · answered by Lady G. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i always get bad marks at school
2006-09-21 02:06:18 · answer #6 · answered by nuca t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They all sukk.....
2006-09-21 02:01:41 · answer #7 · answered by longhair140 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋