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Reality TV editors and producers discuss “frankenbiting” and other forms of audience deception

This month’s issue of Radar magazine has an “expose” of one of reality television’s “secrets”: editors constructing fake situations out of real footage. With interviews with five story producers or story editors, Andrew Goldman reports on rather familiar producer tricks, such as asking leading questions during interviews and getting casts drunk. The real center of …

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