Analysis: Trump’s ‘reality TV’ image

After “Survivor” and “Big Brother” ushered in the new generation of reality TV, I mounted a campaign to label such shows “staged” and “unscripted,” worrying that calling programs that were so conspicuously shaped, planned and molded by editing “reality” bordered on misleading readers.

After “Survivor” and “Big Brother” ushered in the new generation of reality TV, I mounted a campaign to label such shows “staged” and “unscripted,” worrying that calling programs that were so conspicuously shaped, planned and molded by editing “reality” bordered on misleading readers.