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Gina Welch - The Moral Story – The Death of Reality Television. Please? - True/Slant

If by some generous definition reality TV had any grace to fall from, 2009 seems the year it crashed (megahit upliftersThe Biggest Loser and American Idol exempted, here and throughout). Observe the desperate state dinner-infiltration of the Real Housewives of DC-bound Salahis; the child-pimping and reality-series-courting of Octomom and the Balloon Boy family; the incomparably dark tale... Read moreIf by some generous definition reality TV had any grace to fall from, 2009 seems the year it crashed (megahit upliftersThe Biggest Loser and American Idol exempted, here and throughout). Observe the desperate state dinner-infiltration of the Real Housewives of DC-bound Salahis; the child-pimping and reality-series-courting of Octomom and the Balloon Boy family; the incomparably dark tale of Ryan Jenkins, the rumored victor of two VH1 reality shows, Megan Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money, who killed himself after being charged in the brutal murder and mutilation of his new wife, who, in a twist too extreme for even the most cynical satire of our culture’s degradations of the body, was identified by the serial number on her breast implants. View page