How much reality TV do you watch?

Turn on the tube, it's everywhere you go. Strangers grouped together in unnatural circumstances that bring out the best or the very worst in them. Usually its the latter that makes air. Of course, you have the feel- good shows like Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. But those are far outnumbered by the surgical makeovers that sure, change lives, but seem quick fixes without the real work like what you'll find on Biggest Loser, for instance. The name of the show is misleading, sounds negative, but I leave each hour, inspired to be a better, healthier person. The premise is simple, severely obese people, working with trainers to lose weight through exercise and eating right. No crazy fast- fix diets. Already this season, one of the contestants has lost more than 100 life- saving pounds.

Have you ever seen Arnold Schwarzenegger's Running Man? I feel we're on the verge of a reality show meltdown. I think America's already gone too far, exploiting a little person by pairing him with women twice his size in a show that culminates with a marriage proposal. Married couples, opening their lives to the scrutiny of 24 hour surveillance. And how can I forget, just the other day- I heard on the radio them talking about a new show this season where a woman was hooked to a lie detector to reveal before her husband, family and all of America, that she'd had an affair and really wished she was married to her ex- boyfriend. All for money.

I suppose the silver lining was that the question that sent her home with NOTHING, was if she thought she was a good person. She answered yes.

What is wrong with people? Those who'd put themselves on television for the promise or chance of money, and those who are hooked to watch weekly, if not several times a week to see what greed and vanity will reveal of human nature. We've become a soap opera drama hungry at the expense of others society.

What's your opinion? Email me, ncrites@kpho.com