A Shift of Reality The new television genre of reality shows is becoming so popular because they offer an alternate sense of reality. What is reality and is there only one interpretation or many different ones? There is no one reality because reality shifts. The dictionary definition of reality is the following: Reality is the state of things as they are rather than as they are imagined to be. Realities are facts. Just like reality, …showed first 75 words of 1921 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1921 total…almost through the characters and that way there are no consequences. The characters do things that us as individuals would never think of doing or chances we could or never would take. These new reality television shows offer an alternate sense of reality and many different levels of it. There is not one reality because it is forever changing and evolving and our society has taken this new genre of television shows to portray this.