Ripple

“The catalyst for these protoreality shows was, as ever, a labor strike:”
― Emily Nussbaum, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

“Frank Berry, then the head of the NAACP, also objected to the show, but from a different angle. The way he saw it, the problem with Cops wasn’t that it worked with the police—it was that cops behaved better on camera than they did in real life, concealing their racism.”
― Emily Nussbaum, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

“Scanlon would go on to edit two more seasons of The Apprentice, then got fired, two weeks before Christmas, after a male editor came back from paternity leave.”
― Emily Nussbaum, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

“Darwin had no problem saying that animals had fun playing. But suddenly only people could “play”; a behaviorist might say that non-humans could merely “engage in affiliative activity.”
― Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are