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The Pressure OF RATINGS

WHAT makes reality TV so popular? Research says these shows allow normal people to fantasise about gaining status through automatic fame. We can watch people like ourselves and imagine that we too could become celebrities. It does not matter as much that the contestants often are shown in an unfavourable

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