If you tape someone for 24 hours and broadcast their 5 worst minutes, you can make anyone look like a loser.
Those shows also have "loser sound cues", when you can tell that the person is not doing well.
Those shows also have "loser sound cues", when you can tell that the person is not doing well.
The prologue of This American Life episode 458, "Play the Part" provides good testimony about this process from someone who worked in editing. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/458/p...
Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" has a chapter on the Real World, "What Happens When People Stop Being Polite." It'd probably be the most work to seek out, but it's my highest recommendation, well worth it. He's a pretty entertaining writer, and has some great insights here. He tracks down one of the early stars and points out a few frightening ways that real life interactions mimic reality television shows.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
This is what scares me about the permanence of internet commentary, and why I laugh when people say, "use your real name!"
After 10, 20, 30 years of commenting around the internet, it's likely you can paint any picture of me you'd like.
Because reasons.