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television reality shows  

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  • The popular subgenre of crime-based reality television shows regularly contains influential, often distorted representations of individuals of various races and demographic backgrounds. Such programs feature a blend of entertainment and news attributes and promote themselves as representing “reality” as it exists in everyday life, whether or not this is actually the case. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Television Reality Shows]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RMK4XC21-V

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