True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us

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By Danielle Lindemann ’02

Published Feb. 18, 2022

Long regarded as one of life’s most popular ‘guilty pleasures,’ do you ever wonder what watching reality TV really means for the psyche or the effect that these shows have on the collective social landscape of the modern world? In True Story (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Lindemann dives deep into the sociological and societal effects and implications of reality TV.

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