i wish i could compete for a million dollars.

I mostly agree with Kim Holden's view on reality television but I feel that she went a little bit overboard on the antagonization of it. Sure, I admit that I enjoy watching bikini-clad blondes hold their breath in a tank of ice cold water, and i definately don't mind watching beefy guys barfing because they couldn't stomach the "rocky mountain oyster" that they just gagged their way through, but minus a select few, reality shows are (in my opinion) over-scripted, over-produced, over-dramatic programs that are used to fill time between my "Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show" and my mom's hour long viewing of "House." When Kim writes that "We are more interested in finding out who's getting voted off the island than we are in our own local news," she completely missed the point. Millions of dollars go into producing reality shows to be entertaining, and I'm pretty sure that news stations' main goal isn't to attract viewers. Oh yeah, and about her comment "We seem morbidly fascinated with witnessing an individual being cornered by the group and getting told that they are not wanted,": if we only watched to see someone get voted off the island, we would stop watching after the first episode.