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Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV (2010)

by Jennifer L. Pozner(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1580052657 (ISBN13: 9781580052658)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Seal Press

review 1: I have truly appalling taste when it comes to television - Give me Housewives, Toddlers n' Tiaras, Top Models, and Bachelors, and I'm a happy girl. I am also a person with moderate intelligence who can easily pick out the manipulative editing, set-ups, and product placements on my own. Furthermore, I am able to identify stereotyping, misogyny, and lack of cultural diversity in most reality tv shows, yet I watch them anyway. I am the problem, I get that. It's cheap, mindless entertainment, and it's necessary to turn my mind off and just let silliness wash over it every now and then. I am not being slowly brainwashed, or turned into a mindless consumerist zombie, or buying into the Bachelor version of romance. I don't agree with Posner's belief that everyone who watches real... moreity tv is being affected by it on some level. Since I don't buy into that, the stakes of her argument are pretty much nonexistent. Made for a somewhat interesting read due to her lively writing style, but by the end, when it came to the chapters on activism, I had completely checked out. There are bigger fish to fry than Tyra Banks.
review 2: Pozner is funny and smart, and it shows in this book. I think she strikes the right balance of passion and fact. Plus! There are drinking games included! I was afraid that I would feel guilty about loving the Kardashians while reading, but this book isn't about that, it's about changing how you think about what you're watching. I'll never watch TV the same way again! Everybody should read this book! less

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