No one ever claimed that watching the Bravo or E! channels on TV would make you smarter, or even more culturally aware. But, I would have to argue that watching some of my regularly-programmed guilty pleasures has enriched my life.
As a newly-declared Media Studies minor, one of the questions often posed to me and my classmates is whether today's media is helping us become more knowledgeable or just "dumbing down" society. Of course I cannot explain the appeal of watching inherently-scripted reality shows such as The Real Housewives to my grandmother, but nevertheless, they keep me coming back for more.\nYou see, in my grandmother's day and age, she was the housewife, minus the high school drama and Botox. TV programming was expected to be simple: nothing too out-of-the-box, risqu
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