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3.5
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this book presents a very thorough history of reality tv and how it came to be. when you deal with this history you are relegated to the world of executives and people out to make a quick buck on the cheapest form of entertainment, and nussbaum presents such cases when that notion gets convoluted and producers realize that the people they are filming are human after all, in whatever decade of tv that is covered in the book. 

to say that the detail in this book is a detriment would be false but because of its methodological summary of deals and network chatter, it did get a bit boring for me at times