Reality TV, We Love it! We Hate it! But We Watch it!

After the re-broadcast of Basketball Wives season 4 reunion show, I posted a comment regarding the lack of reality on the show. I also mentioned a rumor about the show. I personally did not spread the rumor at first but by the next day I had over forty comments regarding the show. I have a business and post beautiful items I am selling and I get zero comments? *confused* any who....my point is people are interested in the media known as reality television. I remember how my mother loved the Young and the Restless, she would talk about Victor Newman as if he were her friend....he was a fictional character who won her heart and many hours of her life and mine, cause wasn't nothing stopping her from watching the Y&R. Now thirty years later we have the new soaps, Reality TV dramas. And boy is there drama. No matter which is your favorite they all offer the same dishes: jealously, envy, conceit, loud women, gay men, money, luxury brands and plenty of bragging. Throw in some he said/she said and you have the recipe for a successful reality show. The funny thing is, no matter how immature, silly, ignorant, or down right ratchet the characters are we tune in. Over 5 million viewers have been watching BBW's. The advertisers are making millions and I am sure VH1 is not doing bad either. Wasn't VH1 a music channel? Do they even have any music programming? I thought it was bad when MTV, VH1 and video Juke Box played videos all day. This is much worse. I am a middle aged woman and I know these shows are not real. I know the producers spin the shows to make people believe certain characters are a certain way, but with Twitter, blogs, Instagram and all the other 24 hr a day media cycles we cannot seem to get away from the foolishness. It saddens me to see so many of our young people being fooled into believing this is reality. In reality most of the people on these shows are miserable and lonely. If the BBW's had husbands they would be trying to keep their families together not tear down relationships. Glorifying designer bags, designer clothes, luxury cars and way too much make-up is destroying many young ladies. I know these ladies are doing more than arguing over who does not like who, why are they spinning these shows to be so shallow? What is the hidden agenda in the media's attempt to make us all hate one another? Where is the love? On the first reality based shows like Wild World of Sports and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous the audience was only shown the best side of sports figures and celebrities. But when shows like Cops and Inside Edition started telling "all" everything went hay-wire. I was looking for something new from BBW's I wanted to see the lifestyle....TRIPS, SHOPPING, BIRTHDAY PARTIES, COOK-OUTS.  I was interested in how they really lived. Unfortunately this never happened. Yes, I do watch reality TV but I don't like it!