Reality T.v.:its Impact On People

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REALITY TV: IT’S IMPACT ON CHILDREN The face of Indian Television has gone through complex plastic surgeries since its birth into our society. From a single soap Hum Log which the entire village used to watch on a single television set, with unimaginable zeal, to the crispy sitcoms Shriman Shrimati, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Tu Tu Main Main ,to Ekta Kapoor’s melodramatic Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi ,to the youth centric drama Sanjeevani, the Indian audience have relished them all. Then, when these production houses found it tough to drag their shows beyond a certain limit and plummeting TRPs started glaring them straight in their faces, came the need and the era of something refreshing and this “something refreshing” was our own “friendly monster” Reality Television. Reality Television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors. These people are put in some altogether extraordinary situations or unnerving locations and are told to act in a certain way by the story editors, so that they are able to strike an emotional chord with the gullible glue watchers of TV. Highly sensitized and overtly manipulated, these scripted realities are responsible for spoiling the smooth fabric of our society, thus encouraging money mindedness, voyeurism and sadistic pleasure. Some popular types of reality shows are game shows, talent hunts, dating shows, supernatural and paranormal shows, talk shows, etc. These shows, despite all criticism, have become an essential part of our daily lives and a spicy topic of idle gossip at social gatherings. But amid all the gala time we’re having, what we fail to realize, is that we’re harming our naive ones big time. Children with their impressionable minds and over sensitive nature

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