[Indy]

Do you look to reality tv for your role models, or for your children's role models, if applicable? Is reality tv the best platform for someone looking to be a role model about anything, considering how engineered and edited it is, leaving the participants with zero input into how they are portrayed (meaning, if someone is serious about being active for a cause, is a reality show the logical place to go about it)?

When you look around and see the effective activism being done by viral web campaigns, kickstarters, and plain old fashioned community outreach, why would a reality show be a better choice than somewhere the message can be controlled?

[Tom4784]

I pity anyone that would see any HM on BB as a role model. People only go in the BB House for the money or the misguided goal of being famous afterwards, not exactly noble aims.

[lippyzippy]

surely it must also be possible for decent honest normal hard working people to win the show? I certainly hope so.....to be honest such decent people are rarer to be found these days, most of the idiots on the streets like like big brother rejects

[Indy]

Originally Posted by lippyzippy

surely it must also be possible for decent honest normal hard working people to win the show? I certainly hope so.....to be honest such decent people are rarer to be found these days, most of the idiots on the streets like like big brother rejects

"normal" people are never put on the show. They don't get past the audition screening. This is how they really screen reality contestants:

Youtube video

A "decent, honest, normal, hard working person" doesn't meet that criteria.