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Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?

Offline with Jon Favreau

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Is Reality TV a Part of Reality TV?

I think that a big part of it actually is reality television, how much reality television has come to shape people's expectations of what entertainment should look like. So I think of these shows almost as an adjunct to reality TV. It just happens to be that the characters in question are portrayed by actors and given lines and given scripts rather than being officially unscripted. But it's the same idea and the same kind of pitch to the audience, which is you can be a voyeur into the lives of famous people.

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