Reality TV

     I really just feel like venting about reality TV for a bit.
          I understand that it is incredible popular and that millions of people watch it bringing in billions of dollars of revenue, but I still have issues with it.  The problem is two fold: One, it is not reality and two, it is cheap entertainment.
      Reality shows are not at all real.  If it were, no one would watch.  People will watch a show about a family with 18 kids or a bunch of twenty year olds in a house on Jersey Shore, but no one wants to watch a show about real people, a family of four with a minivan for example. Even shows that supposedly present some aspect of real life are fake.  "Teen Mom's" for example is about teen mothers trying to make ends meet.  But each of them are paid $60,000 per season, so all of them are pretty well of compared to most teen moms in America, in which three out of ten end up on welfare within a year of their child's birth.  Of course this is nothing compared to The Situation from "Jersey Shore" who makes $30,000 per episode.  These are the shows that are not completely planned out and they are still fake.  Shows like "The Bachelor" and "Survivor" are even more fake because all the drama is created by a producer.
 
  Reality shows are also cheap entertainment.  Not in the monetary sense of the word, since billions are spent on creating it, but in the quality of it's production.  There is no "real" story.  There was no writer crafting a tale.  There is not the same level of character development or story progress as in traditional shows.  There is no plot.  Reality shows are just feats of editing that make boring things seem to have dramatic and climatic moments.
    There has been a rise and fall of the creation of Reality TV.  I think most of that has to do with the fact that networks follow what is hot and reality is on the downward trend now.  I just hope that soon we will be back to the time when stories and plots are what fill primetime television.