I make it a point NOT to watch "reality" programs because they aren't and when my workmates tried to try and get me all exited about one of the shows, Survivor, in its infancy, I always pointed to 2 things:  
1)  the shows have writers, ergo, they're scripted
2)  if the Survivor show lived up to its name the participant in its 1st or 2nd season who burned his hands so severely he had to be 'coptered off the island to a hosp., I always reminded my reality-loving colleagues, if it were truly real that man would have died from untreated wounds and blood poisoning.

There is an issue I'd like John to write about that's become commonplace on the news....why is it "experts" interviewed on TV look away from the interviewer and seemingly read their answers from a teleprompter?