'True Story': Danielle Lindemann on 'What Reality TV Says About Us'

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this special new episode of It's Been a Minute, we share a conversation Sam Sanders recorded about one of his favorite things: reality TV. He's joined by Danielle Lindemann, author of True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, to discuss the genre's origins in Real World and Survivor, how reality TV influences our culture, and why we should all take the genre more seriously.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:03.2	I'm Jasmine Garz.
0:04.7	Today we've got a special episode for you.
0:07.7	Before Sam left, he taped an interview on one of his very favorite things,
0:12.5	reality TV.
0:14.1	We're going to share that chat with you now.
0:16.4	So let's get to it.
0:18.4	Here's Sam.
0:19.4	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:23.2	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:24.3	And today, a topic I love, a topic I think we should all be talking about a lot more.
0:29.9	Reality TV.
0:33.0	The genre has exploded in the last few decades and changed what television looks and sounds
0:38.3	like.
0:39.3	Personally, I can't even remember at this point what television was like before reality
0:44.4	TV.
0:45.4	But there was a before.
0:47.6	And there was this moment when everything began to shift.
0:51.2	This modern era of reality TV dominance.
0:54.2	It was really ushered in by One Show in 1992.
0:57.5	To find out what happened.
1:00.0	When people stopped the impolite.
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