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This Stressful American Life

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2011 Living in stressful urban settings affects health negatively; K-Pop floods the Japanese entertainment market; and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" may have caused the American Civil War. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

California Prisoners Do or Die

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2011 Prisoners all over California continue a hunger strike despite nearing death; "Sister Wives" reality TV show stars fight the anti-polygamy law; and economists have resorted to capital bribery to resuscitate the American job market. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Reality TV on the SAT

Staff / Truthdig Mar 17, 2011 Figuring in among the many gauges of intelligence on this year's SAT is one that raised a controversy for reasons beyond the usual critique that the infamous test for college candidates favors certain populations with access to a particular kind of knowledge and training . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Coming to a TV Near You: Exorcists, Ted Haggard

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2011 Is nothing sacred when it comes to reality TV? That would be a no, further underscored by two projects in the works for the near future: one on fallen pastor Ted Haggard (yes, it's really called "Ted Haggard: Scandalous") . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Informed Public

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Dec 28, 2010 Dig deeper

Sarah Palin Shopping Alaska-Themed TV Show Around Hollywood

Staff / Truthdig Mar 5, 2010 We keep trying to read the tea leaves each time news or rumors about Sarah Palin's blossoming media career hit our radar -- i.e., does this mean she'll be too busy to run for, you know, president? What would it mean for her chances at the White House, for example, if she were to appear in a television show about Alaska she created with the help of reality TV megaproducer Mark Burnett? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Reality Show Disrupts Congress

Satire by the Onion Mar 1, 2010 Cameras heat up the legislative process. Bipartisanship? Rep. William Cummings and his fellow cleaning-product hucksters aren't here to make friends. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Reality TV Hits a New Low With Disabled Model Show?

Staff / Truthdig Dec 2, 2009 There's a lot to unpack when it comes to BBC America's new reality show, "Britain's Missing Top Model," which focuses on a group of disabled women competing to win a high-profile modeling gig. First, what, exactly, is "missing" here, aside from the fact that some contestants are missing limbs? Could it be a sense of humanity, then? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Marion Barry Does Reality TV

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2009 So Marion Barry ultimately wasn't able to be Washington, D.C.'s "mayor for life," but he may get his own reality TV show. According to the Web site DCist, Barry, who's now a city councilman, is currently filming a pilot for the show, although his chief of staff couldn't say which network or production company was behind the project. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America’s Next Top Douche Bag

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2009 Only 24 hours after pleading not guilty to racketeering and fraud charges on Tuesday, former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich has accepted a reality television deal to be one of 10 contestants competing in "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!" As if his hair was destined for anything but television stardom?. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Homeland Security Meets Reality TV

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2008 If you thought reality TV was only for wannabe warblers, petulant teens and bug-eating fetishists, guess again. The Department of Homeland Security, "as well as several other government agencies," according to The Hollywood Reporter, is working with ABC on a new "unscripted" show called "Border Security USA," brought to you, creepily enough, by the executive producer of "Big Brother." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Homer and Marge’s Shortsighted Prediction

Staff / Truthdig Jan 29, 2008 "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening can take some creative license with his characters' back stories, as in this clip, which shows Marge and Homer Simpson -- still in college as they anticipate the end of the '90s -- predicting that Bill Clinton will certainly be seen as the worst president in US history for "lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit" Well maybe not. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )