Reality televison brings out the competitive nature in our society. Everyone wants to overachieve and do things better than another person. Its kind of like sports people want to see people fail and certain people win. When you develop intrest like that in a televsion show your going to be glued to watch it daily.

Nice article, its explains the affect on reality television to people in america and why americans have developed a great intrest in reality t.v. watching it and creating it.