Is "Reality" television truly reality?

I often try to stay away from reality television shows. Stay away, used lightly, because the television industry often trying to smash the border and spread out the definition of the term "reality" for television programs. "Reality" for television executives are those that believe a "reality" based program is one about a former child beauty pageant's family and their wild crazy adventures in redneck heaven.

I'm no expert. Trust me. I don't claim to know anything more than the people at Fox, ABC, or TLC. I just don't find the appeal of a show based around a television show that projects a "redneck-like family" being dumb, stupid, uneducated, but involving promotions of the television show, smart. The television industry a deep, dark, and scary tunnel of working around a funnel of negative images and drug and alcohol abuse. Now that the negative image is out of the way, I find it almost unethical to allow for a show like this to air when the people on the show, who tour late night talk shows in preporations for a new season show their smarts.

Reality shows I feel lie under a blanket of subjectivity. I find that they are very subjective and opinionated because it's very easy to be brainwashed enough to believe what you watch when you tune into Honey Boo Boo and 'Real' Housewifes are faced with mixed projections of truths and opinions of what reality is that it forces the people who watch them to answer the question, "Is Honey Boo Boo a true projection of reality?"