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(CNN) -- You've heard all the criticisms.
Reality TV is fake. Reality TV is hypocritical. Reality TV glorifies bad behavior.
Indeed, "reality TV" has become a shorthand for everything wrong with America: shallow, artificial, attention-craving phonies looking for their Warholian 15 minutes of fame. To the naysayers, MTV's "Jersey Shore" -- which returns Thursday for its second season -- is Exhibit A, from its spray-tanned stars to its overly dramatic situations.
But that's not the whole picture -- or even the half of it, says Andy Dehnart, who writes about reality TV on the site realityblurred.com.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/29/defending.reality.tv/index.html?hpt=C2
Reality TV is fake. Reality TV is hypocritical. Reality TV glorifies bad behavior.
Indeed, "reality TV" has become a shorthand for everything wrong with America: shallow, artificial, attention-craving phonies looking for their Warholian 15 minutes of fame. To the naysayers, MTV's "Jersey Shore" -- which returns Thursday for its second season -- is Exhibit A, from its spray-tanned stars to its overly dramatic situations.
But that's not the whole picture -- or even the half of it, says Andy Dehnart, who writes about reality TV on the site realityblurred.com.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/29/defending.reality.tv/index.html?hpt=C2
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