MTV Real World Austin: Have they finally gone too far?

[Chicago Democrat]

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2005/08/07/i_like/index.html

Heather Havrilesky say MTV's Real World Austin is
the new Worst Show on Television. In her article "The Real World" crosses the line in exploiting the death of one of the cast members Mother, Heather Havrilesky argues MTV has gone over the edge of acceptable.

Here is a complete description of the episode from a blog


http://www.tvgasm.com/archives/real_world/001019.php

[Placebo]

1. 'Real World' is still on the air?

:shrug:

This is news to me.

Who watches that shite?

[Lex]

3. That's what I was thinking too! nt

[ClintonTyree]

2. Other........

The "Real World" went too far right from it's inception. Anyone who thinks this show resembles the real world in any way, is an idiot. It's sensationalist bullshit, choreographed and spurred along behind the scenes by the MTV Producers to achieve the desired affect of completely fucking up an entire generation of teenagers.
Parents should guard their kids from this bullshit. I'm not talking about censorship, I'm talking about common sense.
The Real World, indeed. :eyes:

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Nice to see another Pogo fan on here!

The Real World was passable in its first two seasons, but once everyone learned that being on this show was great exposure, and a possible route to some kind of stardom, they started gaming the system.

"Puck," an obvious character created by an actor to draw attention to himself, ruined RW3, and destroyed any hope the series had. Since then, they've felt the need to constantly top themselves and get more outrageous.

[erpowers]

16. VH1 Exposed Reality TV

About a year or two ago VH1 did a show that exposed reality tv shows like "The Real World". The show pointed out that the confessional scenes that are shown on "The Real World" are actually segments where the producers ask the cast members questions. In other words the cast members are not really just talking into a camera they are being asked certain questions about certain people and certain things. They also pointed out that the producers do actually cut the video to put forward a particular plot theme. They even pointed out that the reality tv show "Class Reunion" had kids from different graduation years even though the producers tried to pass all the kids off as if they had graduated in the same year.

[jonnyblitz]

17. you are correct. cast members from past shows have

admitted in interviews just what you said. they often take one real world member aside and egg him on to cause drama with another.

[Son of California]

4. Hey, remember the gay guy that died on the Real World

a few years back.

-and THAT wasn't exploitation?

[Pab Sungenis]

6. Yeah, but he didn't die on the show.

He died after it had aired. AND the kid made something of his life (as an AIDS activist and volunteer) and used the platform of the show to advance a worthy cause.

[mconvente]

7. Right

I think his name was Pablo - from Real World San Fran (the one with Puck on it). It's gone down hill so far. I seriously never watch MTV anymore - at all. I used to watch it a lot in my younger teenage years (13-15) but it's all crap now. Real World San Diego was awful - just getting worse and worse.

[BulletproofLandshark]

12. His name was Pedro Zamora

A short Wiki article about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Zamora

[sniffa]

8. who cares

i'm pissed about that fucking freeper on the show, who gets to spout taLking points and hatefuL rhetoric with aLmost no dissent.

[erpowers]

20. Who?

Who is the freeper on the show?

[laststeamtrain]

9. I've watched a total of maybe, just maybe an hour of MTV in my...

whole life. They took something that was good, rock music, and turned it into one of the squarest things imaginable, a TV show. Unforgivable.
I have no idea why any self-respecting 'rebellious youth' ever went along with it.

[MrSlayer]

10. Put me down for "who cares".

Really who gives a fuck what they do on that stupid show on that stupid network? MTV sucks and has sucked for almost 20 years.

[NebraskaDem]

11. MTV...

stopped being good in about 1990

[Chicago Democrat]

13. Welcome to DU!

:)

[NebraskaDem]

15. Thanks

Glad to be here....

[alfredo]

14. Do they ever play music on the station? Few times I have

tried it, it was some dumb reality show.

[erpowers]

19. The Used to; not too much Now

When the channel first came on the air they played mainly videos, but when the reality tv craze came about they changed and dropped the videos, with exception to a few hours, and went mainly to reality tv shows like "The Real World", "Made", and "True Life".

[alfredo]

22. Now if I want music I go to NPR and iTunes.

No commericals.

[wli]

18. boycott the MSM; it's all fascist lies

[riverrunner]

21. It's all about 'hook ups' now

They used to have some more substance to them, more interesting.

[Chicago Democrat]

23. Have you seen the episode in question? This guy first hooks up in Epside 5

In Episode 6 he momma dies and they are FILMING THE MOMENT HE FINDS OUT! Talk about so innappropriate. Talk about utter shit. Or is it. Oh yes it is.