Jacques Peretti draws back the curtain to tell us about the ugly truth of the business model behind reality TV shows
IKE MANY OF US, Jacques Peretti finds reality TV hard to resist. But, as this distinctly alarming book makes clear, that’s part of the problem. At heart, we may know that everything we’re seeing has been carefully constructed for our entertainment and/or titillation. Yet we’re still willing to buy into the idea that the makers have simply pointed their cameras at things that would have