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The Reality of Reality TV

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Importance of Subtext

Reality TV can make a profound impact on the mind of younger viewers, especially. Are we teaching audiences to prize competition over collaboration? Are we as is so often alleged, dumbing down our species? "It's weaponizing this impulse in human beings that is very nasty," he says.

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