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There are people who, when the subject of television comes up, love to make a point of saying, "Ugh, I hate reality TV," scrunching up their noses and pulling their heads back, as if someone had just offered them a plate of fried tarantulas. It will often turn out that these people have never seen a reality show. The genre is not just undifferentiated goo, and there are now so many of these shows, with a wide array of intentions, that it's hard to generalize about them. "Intervention," the A & E series that documents addicts' lives and culminates each episode with an intervention, and the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers" don't have much in common with CBS's "Big ...
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