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Reality Shows for Monitoring the Society Preferences January 6th, 2019 Today I took a class in English about television and after that I was wondering about the influence of this on the mass. More than 20 years ago there was a programme in the main TV station from my country called “You Decide”. On it was showed a short story in each episode and, in some moment, one of those characters must to do a hard decision. The TV station recorded two ends for each story and during the last advertising interval the audience called to the respective telephone number to choose which was the best way to follow, in line with its judgement. Nowadays there are the reality shows in a lot of countries and people can follow strangers 24 hours per day, if they want and pay for it! As times goes by, the audience get affection for ones and antipathy for others because their behavior. I think the reality shows are a modern and more complex kind of “You Decide” because now they can analyze and decide about the real people lives. For me, based in that, it is possible to monitor the preferences of the mass. Therefore the companies can do more specific advertising for add value in their products, the TV station can take more audience showing programmes with specific themes, politicians can customize their speech to achieve the mass, etc. Once I told about this with a friend and he laughed at me. And you? What do you think?

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Reality Shows for Monitoring the Society's Preferences

January 6th, 2019

Today I took a class in English about television and after that I was wondering about the influence of this on the masses. [A more typical word for "masses" might be "public".]
More than Over 20 years ago there was a programme in on the main TV station from of my country called “You Decide”. On it was It showed a short story in each episode and, in at some moment, one of those characters must to do make a hard decision. The TV station recorded two endings for each story and during the last advertising interval commercial break the audience called to the respective telephone number to choose which was the best way ending to follow, in line with its judgement.
Nowadays there are the reality shows in a lot of countries and people can follow strangers 24 hours per day ["24 hours a day" would be a more common way to word this], if they want and to pay for it! As times goes by, the audience comes to care for some and dislike others get affection for ones and antipathy for others because of their behavior.
I think the reality shows are a modern and more complex kind of “You Decide” because now they can analyze and decide about the real people's lives. For me, based in on that, it is possible to monitor the preferences of the masses. Therefore the companies can do more specific advertising for  to add value in for their products, the TV station can get a larger take more audience showing programmes with specific themes, politicians can customize their speech to achieve the mass influence the public, etc.
Once I told about this with a friend about this and he laughed at me. And you? What do you think?


[I agree with you!  I think reality TV is being used more for the advantage of the advertisers and TV programmers, but that the public believes there is an illusion that their choices are important.  Very insightful!]

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Now a days have many programs that let the public to decide who should go out from the program such BBB and " A fazenda" but always with the participation from the public by calling and by the internet vote.
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I remember of this Tv program " você decide" it was a long time ago but I remember that sometimes we call to the program to have the end we thought it'd be better.

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