Creating Reality in Factual Television - 9780367481100

Taylor & Francis

Creating Reality in Factual TelevisionThe Frankenbite and Other Fakes\nAuthor(s): Manfred W. Becker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367481100, 978-0367481100\nSynopsis\nCreating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the \""frankenbite,\"" an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television. \n\nThe author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality televisions dictate to entertain instead of inform, how the \""real\"" and the \""truth\"" fall victim to the demand to \""tell entertaining stories,\"" and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a .