Usually , as we highlighted at Rushdie's , Poniewozik's and Peters's article, reality shows is sum of Media's getting attention trials without caring people who they are using in this programmes.Unfortunately , real aim is not educating or informing society, media-workers, only thinks about " How can i get attention from public?".
But there is something gladsome in Turkey. When we look at Turkey's reality shows, there are not very catastrophic reality show history. That is because Turkey's social culture can't accept extreme attidutes. Like, using drugs ,making love , being drunk on the live broadcast. If they put this on tv. They can't get rating. This dogmatic style of us, accidentally, prevented the crazy- reality shows.
Most of reality-shows in Turkey, based on making competitions. I don't support shows like "Yemekteyiz" or "Desti İzdivaç" but i really like talent shows.Like "Dansa Var Mısın?", "Popstar", because i think, they are giving courage to the public like "Hey, he is like me , and he has got confident about showing him abilities, so i can show it to other people too."
And this thinking little bit prevents exponentialy growing anti-social idea. And somewhat destines people to the real life from television life.
Ayşe, that's an interesting point which I hadn't thought of. You're right, in Turkey certain topics cannot really be shown, whereas on Big Brother in the UK, we can see naked people, people having sex and so forth. In that sense, I feel a bit lucky to be in Turkey!! :-p
ReplyDeleteYeah. It is kind of Yin and Yang , relationship ^^
ReplyDeleteAs if you are talking in behalf of me! I definitely agree with you. Comparing to the reality shows in other countries, ours are not as extreme. The reason for that is of course our culture, as you have also claimed.
ReplyDeletep.s. Sonja, naked people having sex on turkish TV ?! RTÜK would burn down the studio.. :D
*RTÜK: the official department of government which is supposed to inspect the media, sometimes "which cencors much"
hahaha Can, I'm sure you're right!! ;-))
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