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Write 17 pages thesis on the topic reality tv shows. The winner in Portugal has tried to commit suicide several times already. German Scientists say other contestants may be at risk form Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition sometimes developed after leaving the armed forces. The racist controversy around Big Brother contestants Shilpa Shetty and Jade Goody generated, 200 newspaper articles just in Britain, 1,200 English spoken language newspapers globally, 3,900 articles in other languages, 22,000 blog postings on the internet. (wiki.2007.BB.The UK)

From the bloody combats in The Coliseum in Rome, where 80,000 or so spectators watched executions and hunting spectacles, viewers have roared in support, booed in rejection and basically embraced whatever means of recreation and fascination available outside everyday routine.

Networks captured massive audience ratings during the Super Bowl, the Olympics, The Academy Awards, and of course world events like terrorist acts and wars such as the first Reality War: Desert Storm, where billions of viewers immersed in the sights, sounds and language of war. According to CNN’s Danny Schechter (Kellner,1991) “It was a marathon, a news-action. It hooked us into a state of addictive anxiety promoting the illusion that what we were watching in our living rooms was what was happening in the deserts of Arabia.” The Media introduced military jargon such as: “neutralizing targets,” “servicing the target,’ taken out” and the old Vietnam terminology was redefined. “body bags” became “Human remains pouches”

A Times -Mirror Survey on January 31, 1991, showed that 58% of adult viewers claimed to be addicted to the war news on TV. Twenty-one per cent of these addicts said struggled to concentrate on their jobs or everyday lives. (Kellner.1991)

Marketers have always spotted the trends and the opportunities that come with the trends.

T-shirts in Desert Storm, playing cards with the “axis of evil” pictures most wanted, although these were meant for the soldiers as to get familiarized with the tracked terrorists.