Murfreesboro wrote:Speaking of morons on TV, I think we Southerners have certainly been victimized by that genre. I don't get the channels (no cable), but I hear about shows like Honey Boo-boo (from Georgia, I believe), and Swamp People, set in Louisiana. I can just imagine the negative stereotypes those shows must perpetuate about us Southerners! But I sometimes think those people are just playing to the camera, because they want the $$ and, possibly, the fame. I bet they exaggerate every stereotypical aspect of their lives and personalities, just to give the producers what they want. I'm sure it's no different on Jersey Shore.
I decided long ago that "reality TV" is just as fictional as anything else on TV. The only thing that differentiates it is that they don't have a written script with lines to memorize. But they do have character "types" and crude plot lines that are set up by the producers. It is all lowest-common-denominator, like pro wrestling, because it is left to the imagination of the viewers to fill in the plot and conflict, with guidance from the producers of the show. Nothing about it is real.
I agree. I am a Southerner myself. Southerners do get stereotyped.
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