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But in the case of factual TV, they are flattered into a belief in their own importance, and this can lead to a kind of exploitation. With the development of more intrusive filming technologies, this question of exploitation has become an issue of more general public 54 TV FAQ » Q25 concern. The development of new formats of reality TV can be seen as a response to this concern. Shows like Wife Swap, Brat Camp and even Big Brother provide an explicit level of competition or challenge that deliberately take participants out of their everyday lives.
He remains unapologetic and claims to have faked about fifty such news items in total. He blames the lax editorial standards of the programmes he supplied, claiming both that he was incited to get increasingly sensationalist material and that his fakes were transparently obvious. This is certainly true of footage shown to US audiences in the CBS current affairs show 60 Minutes about Born. Born’s case, his imprisonment and its coverage on primetime US TV all show the importance of maintaining the distinction between the fictional and the factual on TV.
14 All the voices of TV – its presenters, its factual commentators, its continuity announcers – use particular forms of language which give an individual viewer the feeling that they are being spoken to as an individual. But at the same time this address is consciously universalised as much as possible. The language habitually refers to the present moment, the shared moment of reception, using terms like ‘now’, ‘here’, ‘we’ and ‘you’, all of which depend on a shared context for their meaning. In this way, television mediates the public world of events and » Q8 Is TV rubbish?