Watch an episode of a contemporary reality game show. In what ways do the editors vconstruct contestants into particular character roles? Is this helpful for the audience or does it manipulate audience responses too far?

In Celebrity Big Brother it is apparant that the editors do construct the characters, such as Shilpa Shetti and Jade Goody, making Jade as the Villian and Shilpa and a Victim. They do this through only showing footage of Shipa crying or being shouted at, and only showing footage of Jade shouting and being aggressive towards other housmates. This mediated footage can therefore lead the audience to only see that particular celebrity in that way, and in some cases, completely changing a way they think of a celebrity, from modelling them to disliking them. It can be argued that this is not helpful for the audience as it manipulates opinions of the celebrities to the extreme, shown through when the celebirities leave the house, Jade Goody had recieved a vast amount of 'boo's' and shouting from the viewers outside. These reactions can therefore effect the celebrities life from then on, either being more popular and being asked to appear on more shows, or either being totally desregarded due to thier unpoularity with the public.