“Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?” PeopleLooksSaidRealityEyePerfectTelevisionExpressionFascinatingTrendsNarcissismDoing NothingReality Television Book:Espresso Tales Source: Espresso Tales
“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.” RealitySeemsOrderNextLostGreaterTelevisionFunctionStructureDetermineNewspapersMagazinesCinemaRetreatImperativesAccordInterpretingSignifying Author:Douglas Crimp
“I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?” KnowsMenWorldGivingMeanChildrenRealityKidsCoursesParentWatchesFocusFrontsTelevisionBagsDepressingCartoonPillsOf ContextFreaking OutYuppiesReally Depressing Author:Emily Haines
“We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.” ShouldKindBookShowsRealityMediaTelevisionTerribleHealthyBehaviorTerrible ThingsReality Shows Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is clearly dominating. But I still believe in some old rules.” YearsBelieveHas BeensStillsRealityTelevisionTrumpChordsI Still BelieveDominatingReality Television Author:Hugh Hewitt
“The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.” RealityChangedTelevisionDecadesReality Television Author:Chuck Todd