All the world’s a reality TV studio
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's columns this week in The Times (London).
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Friday 19 January:
Where does reality end and reality television begin these days? A show as pointlessly bitchy as Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother has been blown up into a public controversy, while the real-life issue of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has been reduced to a reality TV bitch-fest by BBC Panorama.
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