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Podcast: Reality Life with Kate Casey
Episode: Ep. - 1041 - THE INVENTION OF REALITY TV WITH EMILY NUSSBAUM, AUTHOR OF CUE THE SUN!: THE INVENTION OF REALITY TV
Description: Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where sheâs worked since 2011, originally as the magazineâs television critic. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. She is the author of Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV.   Who invented reality television, the worldâs most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why canât we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of âdirty documentaryââfrom its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald TrumpâEmily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told...