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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged reality tv

1. July 2, 2012 07:00 AM

   Push Girls transcends its genre

   Viewers might come for the drama, but they'll stay for the realness that seeps through

   By Alissa Quart

   In her new column, Reality Check, Alissa Quart delves into all things documentary. The new Sundance Channel reality-show Push Girls, about four paralyzed women, is unexpectedly riveting. It's also unseemly. It’s the story of four friends in Hollywood who have been paralyzed from the neck or waist down by accidents or illness. They all try—and mostly succeed—to live independently despite...

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2. August 13, 2012 07:10 PM

   This is CNN?

   The third-place news channel may be forced to change up its format

   By Sara Morrison

   CNN may be responding to the reality of its falling ratings with reality tv programming. Previous attempts to stem the tide of departing viewers have not gone well for the channel. The 2008 election coverage "holograms" of correspondents were widely and deservedly ridiculed. The holograms returned in January of this year as a teaching tool to explain the Iowa caucuses,...

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