LIFE
WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY Our appetite for watching women treat each other horribly has become the norm. Life is starting to imitate art as more and more outrageous behavior is spreading across the nation.
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ince 1948, there’s been a growing television trend that’s become immensely popular. It began with one reality TV show, Candid Camera, and we now have hundreds ranging from talent and game/talent shows to fly-on-thewall documentaries, hidden camera, celebrity, and professional lives, talk shows, life events and hoaxes, supernatural and paranormal, risk-taking, sports, fortune hunting, renovation, dating and relationships, and social experiment shows.
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Written by DAVID CHRISTEL David has been ghostwriting books for well-known people since 1995. He is also the author of Married Men Coming Out: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming the Man You Were Born to Be.
The programs that seem to have the greatest effect on American society are those involving people in varying types of relationships. The entertainment component of the shows is found in everything you’d expect in a soap opera. The difference is that real people, not actors, are the characters driving the situations and events — and the more friction and drama that can be created, the higher the shows’ ratings and entertainment “value.” Speaking of value, let’s not forget that money and fame are
