Some Question Mixing Reality TV, TV News

A new reality show starring TV newspeople in small-market Greenville (MS) is raising questions about whether reporters and producers ought to get mixed up with an entertainment genre that is often reality in name only.

“It would be hard to make local TV news much more of a joke than it already is, so my knee-jerk, this-is-horrible reaction is tempered by that fact,” says Variety TV critic Brian Lowry. “The line between journalism and entertainment has already been blurred and this will only further that process.”