reality TV

First off I'm not a reality TV fan or junky. I find if I wanted to see drama I can just go back home and listen to old high school friends. I decided to watch 2 different reality TV shows. The first was Jersey Shore because I wanted to see what the big deal was all about and the other was The Survivor. Where to start at with the Jersey Shore. The real parts about them was the dogs and the mess on the floors they bring and a some what look at a dysfunctional relationship looks like. I feel that there are some couples like what are in the show but I feel the producers force it on the watchers. They live in close quarters which allows for a lot to go onto.  I think reality TV focuses on drinking, having fun and sex.The show portrays that you can be lazy, get drunk every night, look fake and talk like you didn't pass the 3rd grade and still be rich and drive really expensive cars. They sometimes "work" or show up to a T shirt shop to make it look like they are doing something. I had a really hard time watching it without getting angered at the way the system works.  These people are making millions of dollars pr show and I go to school and probably wont have the full time job I want once I graduate next year. Survivor was more real than the Jersey Shore in that the basic human instant of surviving was there. Even though at any moment these people could get medical help, leave, or even get a pizza if they were hungry. Even this show seemed very staged to me in how key resources would just pop up. I feel that if I was in a situation like the shows put you in I would be a little intense but at times it felt too much.  Daniel Tosh from Tosh.0 once said on one of his shows "You wonder why other countries hate us? In America we have a game show called Survivor! It's a game show where we try to survive in places where people already live. The people there are like, 'hey can I have some of that bread'? And we're all 'NOOOOO! I'm starving! We don't have our cell phones out here, this is really tough!'." Its really true,we are  so caught up in ourselves to really see what we are watching. I feel some people just life to see a train wreck while others just like to see someone else's life sucks more than theirs.  So when everyone else is watching their reality TV I will stick to watching my sports.