Lonelygirl September 27, 2007

I had never heard of Lonelygirl before taking this class. I even asked my daughter about it and she was clueless. She mainly focuses on MySpace. If I hadn’t know any better, I would have believed this was a real teenager doing teenage things. The one thing that did strike me as being a little strange was that her father allowed her to be in the room with a young man…with the doors closed. The issues surrounding the reality of this show doesn’t really surprise me. Why would they hide the facts? Maybe to create more interest in the show. Also, how do we know a lot of the new shows that we watch on television are real. For example Flavor Flav’s show. Who would date, let alone kiss him unless they knew they were getting some kind of incentive to do so? The television has been bombarded with these types of shows and though I’m not a big fan of them, I do check them out every now and then for the laughs — or the drama. I’m always questioning their authenticity, because certain things  that happen in these shows just don’t make sense.  I’ve even heard that some of the game shows are rigged in certain ways.  Petisa