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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I don't think it's ever been any different though, I remember the earlier seasons when live-feed was often available and, if you watched live feed, the tone was often totally different to the HL shows... You'd see people talking and joking who the HL shows never showed together, extra things said in conversations that we're omitted to change the implications, etc. The only difference was that live feed was more readily available (was often on E4 half the day) BUT it makes little difference in terms of audience manipulation... Because it was only ever a very small percentage of hardcore fans who actually WATCHED live feed. Most of the voters were basing their opinions on the HL shows - and so the evictions and the winner were still decided in that edited version of the show.
In my opinion the only real difference now is not that there's more manipulation... We're all just reality TV veterans now so we see it easily, whereas in the early years we were all just young sprouts.
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..yeah I totally agree with the live-feed and how HL shows..(if someone was just watching them alone...)...were so slanted but even with that though/the omission of stuff etc that sometimes caused context to be lost ...it still wasn't to the extent it is now in that 'characters' were manufactured in the editing with the 'good/evil' thing and not actually that much balance of real people...we still had 'real people' before and more insight to who they were, even with HL editing....