Who Got the Camera? av Eric Harvey

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<DIV><P>Reality first appeared in the late 1980s¿in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as <I>Cops</I> and <I>America¿s Most Wanted</I>; the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue; and the tabloid news of <I>A Current Affair</I>. In a bracing work of cultural criticism, Eric Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in dialog with another kind of entertainment that served as its foil while borrowing its techniques: gangsta rap. Or, as legendary performers Ice Cube and Ice-T called it, ¿reality rap.¿</P><P>Reality rap and reality TV were components of a cultural revolution that redefined popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium. Reality entertainment borrowed journalistic tropes but was undiluted by the caveats and context that journalism demanded. While N.W.A.¿s ¿Fuck tha Police¿ countered <I>Cops</I>¿ vision of Black lives in America, the reality rappers who emerged in that group¿s wake, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg and