Reality TV woes

put in the spotlight this season. Philadelphia native Cabrini students feel that their city is not being depicted to their approval.

“I think they are taking the brotherly love thing a little too serious,” Sean Dugan, a senior liberal arts major, said. Seeing all the male sexual content was said to make many students feel uncomfortable. “It makes Philadelphia look like one big gay community,” Michael Murphy, an English communication major, said. Murphy and Dugan both agreed that this show gave viewers a distorted view of how Philadelphia really is.

“The show makes Philadelphia look soft,” Kyle Foley, a junior criminal justice major, said. Foley also felt that Philadelphia isn’t as nice as they are trying to make it look.

On a recent episode, the cast of the “Real World” complained of how unwelcoming the people of Philadelphia have been. Constant jeers and verbal insults have been aimed at the cast during their stay. In one instance, a member of the cast got a bar stool thrown at him.

In previous seasons of the “Real World,” there has been typically only one homosexual member on the cast. It seems as though the addition of a second has caused disapproval.

Every Philadelphia native questioned responded in the same manner of too much homosexual content.

Wow, I thought this was supposed to be a liberal school.

LATISHA JOHNSON STAFF WRITER LCJ722@CABRINI EDU

This era of reality TVis absolutely sickening! The mere thought is disturbing that this 21st century mind we have, full of technological genius, is not capable of a single human quality; creativity.

What ever happened to television shows with actual substance? We are being brainwashed into a surfeit of meaningless television that’s lacks value and bombarded with commercials even more meaningless.

It seems as though the creativity of shows like the “Simpsons” and “Seinfeld” are no longer prevalent in television today. There was once a time when TVwas filled with shows that promoted family values and every episode had a lesson to be learned.

At first, the explosion of reality TVwasn’t so bad, most will admit to watching “Survivor” and “Temptation Island,” maybe even “The Bachelor,” but now it’s being taken to a whole other level. We are subjecting our minds to mounds of nothingness, which in essence leads to more nothingness.

When “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé” premiered the slope begin to fall. Why are there so many people who watch “Extreme Makeover?” Why are the ratings for this show so high? Have we become so selfindulged as a society that we actually have forgotten what’s entertaining?

We have replaced the laughs from shows like “Full House” and “Friends,” with “ohhs” and “ahhs,” after watching someone have their nose pulled apart. Now that’s interesting TV!

As if that wasn’t enough, somehow someone managed to take reality TVto an all-time low. Yes it gets worse, how about “I Want to Be a Soap Star?” Or the worst of the two and my personal all-time worst idea for a TVshow ever, “He’s a Lady.”

Someone actually thought of a show in which men dress up like women and compete to see who is more ‘womanly.’Wow! Move over Jerry Springer! It has gotten so bad that TVcan even be categorized as a waste of time.

How long will we allow ourselves to be subjected to such craziness?

At what point will enough be enough, or are we just waiting for the brain-warping to end. The ratings for reality TV shows are higher than shows with actual substance.

If someone doesn’t stop this plague of non- conscious, uninteresting television it may continue to plague us forever.

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