Jun 25 2009
A Fabricated Reality - The Image of Shows like John and Kate; and The Hills
The first thing that comes to mind it’s “how real is a reality?”and my answer comes right away “little to reality” but when a reality involves children in the way like the dubious Jon and Kate and the boring version 18 and counting, the only question that comes to my mind “why the parents expose their children to national attention like if they were freaks?” my only answer to that question it’s “pure and simple exploitation to get more money”, I been wondering what the kids of Jon and Kate can think about their sudden rise to the spotlight; I find many answers but not any of them satisfactory because I can’t see anything good for those children development into healthy adults but I hope I am wrong and I hope they learn how to distance themselves from the chaotic circus they grown. I can’t see Jon and Kate as model parents, sure they are greedy to let their children appear on T.V. (this makes me thinks about the Dion quintuplets) but at some extent I don’t blame them because is not cheap to raise a child in the U.S. but still it’s not difficult to see the parallelism between the sextuplets and the quintuplets, both sets of babies grew up in the spotlight and the consequences hasn’t been the best in both cases.
Realities, fabricate their own images, they fabricate what the public wants to see; in much simpler words “they lie to gain money, simple as that” another good example is The Hills, or as I like to call it “Melrose Place with less sexy and more alcoholic people” it’s fake as it can be, but people bought the premise of the show and they bought the “idiosyncrasy” of Heidi Montag and her hubby Spencer Pratt Montag even if they don’t have any talent at all beside looking pretty all day long and say non-sensical things that the public are eager to listen. So at the end realities show a mix of everything and perfection but they don’t look what reality really is a complex place where people ain’t pretty or thin and problems aren’t solve at the end of each episode.
