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Richard Keller, has written many articles for the website TV Squad, offering both opinion and information on Television. It is difficult to find any more information about him.

Keller provides the reader with a lot of information on reality television, but does not hold back to share his opinion on the topics he talks about like an editorial. The article appears to be written so that any person can understand it, but that does not stop it from providing plenty of information about the history of reality television and its rise in popularity.

Keller argues that reality television is a stable of American television and always has been.He dates reality entertainment all the way back to 1947 when Allen Funt introduced //Candid Microphone//, and then with the creation of //Candid Camera//. He argues using many different examples and clips of how reality television has always been an important part of television throughout the years.

He uses the history of television, and focuses in on the introduction and major steps of Reality Television. He also uses large amounts of clips to demonstrate when these Reality Television shows were introduced. He really covers almost every instance of every type of reality television. His evidence comes from clips, which essentially back up everything he says.

Yes the work is logical and clear. Yes the article really says everything about my topic and only talks about my topic The only argument the author really has is that reality television is a large part of television today.

This source was very helpful with my research, as not only did it provide a lot of information about my topic and only about my topic, it also introduced to me a lot of shows and other things that I can research separately to further understand my topic.

Keller, Richard. "A History of Reality Television ." //TV Squad//. AOL, 9 July 2008. Web. 28 Sept. 2010. .

Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette are both published authors on the subject of television and more specifically reality television.

The book opens with an overview about reality television, its history, and its growth in popularity. The book then becomes very informational in the way it approaches reality television history. For example when they talk about how documentary's slowly evolved to become reality TV, they approach the subject very factually, and with little opinion. I don't think you have to be an expert to understand this book, but it does appear to be more advanced than something any lay person could understand.

Each chapter of the book engages in a different aspect of reality television so the author doesn't necessarily have one "argument." In the chapter that I'm mostly reading, the author isn't so much arguing as she is informing the reader about the transformation of documentaries to reality television. She mostly uses the quotes of famous television critics to support her point. She also uses their quotes to help her tell the story of how people began to create not documentaries or family comedies, but something else entirely: reality television.

Yes the information is presented logically, but it could have been presented a little more clearly. Yes my topic was clearly addressed throughout the entire writing. No their is no stance taken at all by the author.

Yes the source was very helpful with m research, because it only provided facts about my topic. It taught me much more about the history of reality television and provided many quotes about my topic, which may be helpful in my own presentation.

Murray, Susan, and Laurie Ouellette. //Reality TV: remaking television culture//. New York: New York University, 2009. //Google//. Web. 4 Oct. 2010. .

The author is not specifically given in this source, but the article is from one of the library's databases so whomever the author is they are probably more than qualified.

The work offers two possible arguments about the merits or demerits of reality television, and provides a lot of information to support both arguments. The Lay person could probably understand this article without too much trouble.

One of the thesis by the author is that reality television is an intelligent alternative to scripted TV, which focuses on important social issues and gives the ordinary citizen a chance at success. While the other thesis argues that reality television does not have the intelligence of scripted television. The author supports both of these arguments using various statistics and charts. For example he lists off the amount of viewers survivor obtained in its first season, and he uses a pie chart expressing the opinion of many on reality television. These facts and polls are what the author uses as evidence to prove his point. The most helpful information he provides is the information about the audiences of these shows, and what a large American population thinks about these shows. It also provides information about many different reality shows that I had not heard of, which will be helpful when creating our project.

Yes the Information is logical, clear, and well-researched Yes the work adequately addresses my topic. The author provides an argument for two sides.

This site gave me a lot of valuable information about different reality television shows, including some I had not heard of before. It also gave me information about the audience of reality television, which is very important. With the information about TV shows that this work provided I'll be able to better understand the television shows I plan to spoof, as well as giving me information about why these shows are so successful.

"Reality Television." //Issues & Controversies On File:// n. pag. //Issues & Controversies//. Facts On File News Services, 11 Jan. 2008. Web. 7 Oct. 2010. .

Richard M. Huff, the author of the book Reality Television, is a very qualified expert in the field of Reality Television. He was a working journalist and author at both trade and consumer publications for 22 years. He is a television editor and writer for the New York Daily News. He also teaches journalism and sorts reporting at the New School, Manhattan.

The book like many of my other sources is meant to inform its reader about reality television, but like the others it has the same opinion that through some revolution reality television has become a major part of television culture. The book provides enough information in a simplistic enough way that the lay man should be able to understand it.

This Book resembles my other sources in that the author isn't so much arguing beyond that reality television is a major part of television culture today, because of some kind of reality revolution of reality TV that was brought about by TV shows like Survivor and the Real World. Also like the other authors of sources, Huff uses dates and history to explain the history, and prove his point of the importance of reality TV.

The work is laid out very logically and simply for the reader. All of the chapters in the book each clearly address an aspect of reality television, the types, what kind of characters are usually found in reality TV shows, what casting for these shows is usually like (etc.). The topic was certainly well addressed in the source seeing is the source is an entire book about my topic. The book is titled Reality Television, and my subject is reality television, and it is obvious when flipping through the book that my topic is the only one addressed. This book has more information about the past and different types of information that perhaps all of my other sources combined. The Author does take a mostly objective stance when he is describing facts about the past or the history, but he is constantly reminding the audience of his opinion about reality television becoming a cornerstone of American television.

Yes I certainly learned from this book. It has more detailed information then I could ever have hoped for on the past of reality television. The Source provides for me a lot of background knowledge, which can help me not only understand reality television shows, but also where the audience of reality television came from all of the sudden.

Huff, Richard M. //Realiity Television//. Westport: Greenwood Publising Group, 2006. Print.

Suzanne Martin is a more than qualified source. She has a lot of experience being the manager of youth and education research for Harris Interactive, which is a marketing research firm. The purpose of the work is to clearly inform why children are interested in reality television. It is definitely understandable to the lay person. The only real opinion in it is that young people are drawn to reality television. Youth watch tons of reality television because they can relate to the characters and are drawn to people who are attractive, have good sense of humors, and physical ability. She talks about the three famous shows that kids watch most like survivor, american Idol, and fear factor and why kids enjoy them so much. The main argument of the paper is that young people are drawn to reality television because they admire the people in the shows, and since it's reality television they feel like feasibly they could be that person some day. A lot of the evidence that Suzanne has comes from studies and interviews from children. The article is actually filled with quotes from the young describing what it is they like best about reality television and why they are so drawn to it. This is exactly what i've been looking for when it comes to information about the audience. It tells me exactly why the audience enjoys reality television so much, and who the audience is. The work is logical and pretty well researched The topic has definitely been adequately addressed There wasn't really any bias in this paper. Yes this source was extremely helpful to my research, as it was the first one to finally give me information about the audience of reality television, and it backs that information up with quotes. Martin, Suzanne. "Young Viewers Are Drawn to Reality TV." //At Issue: Reality TV//. Ed. Ronnie D. Lankford. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. Cynthia Frisby is the arthur of a the article "Getting Real with Reality TV." She is the coeditor of Journalism Across cultures and has of a lot of experience the realm of reality television. The entire purpose of her work is to convince the reader to believe that Reality Television is Inspiring. She does this, however, by trying to inform the reader as much as she can about why people find Reality Television so inspiring, and actually ends up providing a lot of information. The article is such that I feel like the lay person could understand it just as much as an expert in the field. In the passage Cynthia Frisby describes Reality Television as a benefit to society, improving the viewer's moods and their self-esteeem. She also claims that the more audience looks into the lives of the reality show star the better the audience member will feel about their own situation in their own life. The main argument of this passage is that reality television inspires people to be grateful for what they have in life, while at the same time inspiring them to do better. She uses a lot of research and examples of reality television shows as her evidence. For example she sent out for 110 people to complete a gratifications survey on reality television. She uses this study to prove that a majority of the people in America are reality television watchers and that many of them were inspired by reality TV. This was a very small sample of people, but it still does say a lot about the amount of people being affected by reality television. Yes, the sources is pretty logical, clear, and well researched. I thinks she could have pulled results from other surveys that perhaps had a bigger sample of people. Yes, although at a few points in the article Frisby does seem to get off topic, and a little "preachy" when describing the "wonders" of reality television, she still does address my topic when it comes to the question why do people watch reality television. Yes the author is definitely biased about loving reality television, and mostly just argues that point through out the entire article. Though not quite as helpful as some of the other sources in my research, this resource still provided me with a lot of information about why people might watch reality TV, which is information that a lot of my other resources didn't provide much of. Cynthia M. Frisby. "Reality TV Is Inspiring." //Opposing Viewpoints: Television//. Ed. Jamuna Carroll. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2006. //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. Web. 22 Oct. 2010. Karen F. Balkin is a published writer on the Gale database so I think from that alone can prove that she is a qualified enough source. The article is pretty easy to follow and I think could be understood by the layperson. Karen ’ s main thesis in the article is how television has changed over the years so that reality television has become more popular because the people want to know more about the stars and the stars want the audience to know more about them. The author then begins to describe this change by talking about the evolution of reality television. She goes through each decade and one-by-one describes how reality television changes by giving examples of television shows that were on during that era. She describes how television becomes more and more invasive. She then continues to talk about research the psychologists have done, which tries to explain why people have become more drawn to reality television and why it has changed so much over the century. These references are what she uses as evidence in her source. Yes the work is very clear and well researched Yes my topic was addressed very well especially why people like reality television Most of the article is really just providing information so there is very little bias. This source was very helpful to my source as not only did it provide for me a lot of information about the history of reality television, it also gave me more information as to why people watch reality television, and most importantly why the population has grown to like reality television more and more. "Introduction to Reality TV: At Issue." //At Issue: Reality TV//. Ed. Karen F. Balkin. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. Web. 24 Oct. 2010. Richard Breyer is of the book " Reality TV: More Mirror Than Window," and is also a professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University It is mostly a persuasive peace describing how Reality television is damaging America, and hurting the people involved with the show. This paper is a little more advanced, I think, than any lay man could read, however, I don ’ t believe you have to be an expert to really enjoy the article. Breyer is constantly trying to make the point in his paper that reality television is a negative influence on society promoting humiliation and promotes “ individual ruthlessness. ” Breyer, like many of the other sources I ’ ve used uses examples from different reality television shows over history to try to make his point and to prove it. The only real evidence he uses is the references he makes to reality TV shows from history. The author really only provides negative information about reality television shows. The work is clear and logical, however it doesn ’ t appear like Breyer used as much research as he did opinion in this source. My topic of reality television has been addressed thoroughly and the information given about its history was helpful, but other than that it does not address my topic maybe as much as other sources did. The author has a clear bias against everything reality television, and this shows heavily in his work. The source did provide more information about why people watch TV and some background information about reality television, so it was pretty helpful, however since the source is mostly opinion it isn ’ t quite as helpful as some of my other sources. Breyer, Richard. "Reality TV Has a Negative Influence on Society." //At Issue: Reality TV//. Ed. Ronnie D. Lankford. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. Web. 24 Oct. 2010.

//Ben Alexander is a published author on the topic of reality television. He is also the author of the book Jocelyn, which is a play about a young woman contestant on a reality TV show. The article definitely an editorial. It does provide information about reality television, but is filled with the author’s opinion.// //Alexander’s thesis is that reality television is dangerous because it has the stakes of reality alongside the disinhibitions of fantasy. He describes reality television as dramas that aren’t harmless because all of the stakes, characters and relationships are real. He talks about different TV shows that demonstrate this danger such as Survivor and Big Brother. He talks about how in the normal world people aren’t out searching for drama and drama isn’t readily available for them thus the loss of inhibitions. He actually quotes real events from past seasons of reality television shows as evidence.// //Yes the work was logical, but there was a lot of stuff that wasn’t quite necessary, which made it less clear.// //Yes my topic was adequately addressed, but there was a lot that was unnecessary.// //The author definitely argues about the dangers of reality television.// //Yes the source is helpful to my research, because it does provide a lot of information about why people enjoy reality television even though it is so terrible.// //Alexander, Ben. "Reality TV Is a Dangerous Art Form."// Reality TV//. Ed. Karen F. // // Balkin. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2004. 44-47. Print. //

//David Hiltbrand is a published author on the topic of reality television. He is an entertainment writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His thesis is that Teenagers prefer to watch reality TV shows because they are attracted to the relatively short duration of the TV series. Further, reality TV shows often deal with relationships and rejection, two issues with which teenagers typically identify. The layman could understand this article.// //Hiltbrand makes the argument that what teenagers enjoy is very different from what other any other generation enjoys. Reality television grows because more teens enjoy it. “Teens get special attention from the networks [because]… they’re trendsetters. ‘Oftentimes they are the first adopters of a programming breakthrough.’” Teens also always want something new so they are not attracted to a show that is going to last for 10 seasons. They would much prefer a reality television show, which have much less longevity. Hiltbrand does not use quite as much evidence as the other authors do in their articles.// //Yes the work is logical but it wasn’t perhaps as well researched as some of my other articles.// //Yes my topic about why teenagers watch reality television was addressed.// //The author does take a bias about what teenagers watch.// //The source was helpful in showing exactly who the audience of reality television is.// //Hiltbrand, David. "Teenagers Identify with the Issues Presented in Reality TV// //shows."// Reality TV//. Ed. Karen F. Balkin. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2004. 54-57. Print. [|kindle publishing pro bonus]