More venom from your favourite sickly asthmatic.

What is the appeal of so-called "reality TV" huh?

Let me set you all straight here:
If it's being broadcast on TV, it's being structured and recontextualised to suit the purposes of the network broadcasting it - in most cases, as something mildly amusing to keep you sitting in the same place between the advertisements which cost companies ridiculous amounts of money to purchase screen time for.
Once something is recontextualised, it is no longer reality.
If you want reality, get off the couch, open the front door and check it out for yourself.

If people didn't watch this crud, we wouldn't have to be bombarded by advertisements for it at every turn. We wouldn't have actual reality infected with billboards, radio ads, newspaper ads and assorted other declarations of "watch this, we know you want to, because you're stupid!"

Anyone who disagrees with me on this element can feel free to raise the topic in discussion, and I promise I'll try to argue my points calmly, rationally, without frothing at the mouth. Mention Gretel Killeen and the aforementioned promise is null and void.

And if you ever hear of me watching Big Brother, Survivor, Australian Idol, or any other mind-numbing, brain-liquifying, lowest-common-denominator steaming pile proclaimed to be "reality TV," please do me a favour and shoot me in the fucking head.

While you're at it, do the same to anyone you know who wastes their time and energy on this audio-visual horseshit. Believe me, it's kinder than letting them walk around with the delusion that they have more mental capacity than an irradiated cabbage.

I quote Henry Rollins: "I feel that being alive in this day and age and not being cynical is sleeping on the job, because if you're not questioning things, if you're not mad about being marketed to like a child, you're gonna get sold out."
I really don't rant like this just to seem like I have opinions, I just want everyone else to wake up and realise how they're being condescended to by programmers and advertisers.

P.S. - fuck Jamster, its stupid ringtones, that mind-bogglingly stupid animated frog, the subhuman scum responsible for creating all of the above, and any sun-dazed trogloditic Stepford-wife who thinks it's cool.