Survivor

Alexis makes a valid point in the case that the fans know some of the tendencies and abilities of the favorites. But, she overlooks the fact that the producers and editors of the show only put on TV what is appealing to the audience.

In the state of automaticity, there are traps. One of these traps is giving us a false feeling of being informed. Because society is so full of information, people tend to believe that they are greatly informed. However, the truth is that message saturation is so thick that we tend to accept the surface meaning of many messages and believe it to be true. That may be the case in howAlexis feels. She says that they have an advantage because they know the ‘favorites’ tendencies but what she is missing is that the fans are only seeing a small amount of what is really going on. And in that small amount the producers may be skewing the actual truth and give a false feeling that we are seeing reality.

Furthermore, this sense of skewed reality also comes from a term in Chapter 5 known as “Programmers’ Perspective”. Programmers know that they need to attract audiences by tweaking their sense of reality to make a show seem more interesting. This can be a major factor in giving Alexis a false feeling that she knows how the veterans are going to act.