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And it’s not real. Reality TV is the news – i.e. real things happening to real people in real places. Unless life is all staged for the benefit of some higher power and the world’s a stage and so forth, there isn’t anyone with a script going, ‘And cue the economic collapse of Mali!’ or similar. Whereas Reality TV is, if not completely staged (and any television worker will tell you, if plied with strong drugs, that every show is as manipulated and directed as possible), then as carefully planned as possible, from the cast (contestants) to the storyline (introducing new people and challenges).