Do Reality Shows Make Good Televison?

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We have come to see more and more reality shows being screened across numerous television networks. From the likes of the Kardashians and Guilliana and Bill on E Entertainment, Basketball and the Real Housewives on Vuzu Amp. All the way to TLC with Iyanla fix my life and Little and Looking for love, just to name a few. Reality shows have millions of viewersm but in all honesty, does that qualify them to make good television? Now, it all boils down to what you understand ''good television'' to be, of which i consider it to be a show which i grasp something from at the end of each episode, which teaches me skills i can use to get to where i want to be in life as well as different approaches of things.That said, do the reality shows we watch actually teach us anything? Or are they slowly feeding on our character without us noticing? I chose to focus on 4 very popular reality shows, as i could not fit them all into 600 words. To prove that the majority of them do not make good television as they are all related. Very popular with the girls is ofcourse the Kardashians. Seemingly, no valid reasons are given as to why they love them so much, besides the fact that they get all the latest trends and with it they grasp the mentality that clothes cannot be worn more than once. Which is what beings to create the unreasonability of teenage girls demanding more and more clothes from their struglling parents. But they don't see it right? This family paints false impressions in our young minds, as they don't do anything but they are so rich and famous. Sadly in every episode you see the children communicate with their elders as if they are of equal age and that feeds into the attitude of the young girl watching, like drugs it enters the system and becomes a part of it. On the same network we meet Guilliana and Bill who live differently than the Kardashians. They're a small
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