As he prepares to return to Iraq, the MTV reality show star discusses how it feels to be redeployed -- and to learn about it on camera.
By Caitlin Shamberg Apr 1, 2009
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MTV's reality dinosaur (finally!) gets a trans cast member. How painful is this going to be?
By Thomas Rogers
January 8, 2009
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There are shows we love even when they don't love themselves. For them, Salon staffers stage an intervention.
By Salon staff
September 3, 2008
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The new Worst Show on Television, "The Real World" crosses the line, and we all savor the final days of "Six Feet Under."
By Heather Havrilesky
August 7, 2005
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We sit in as reality TV pros pick the contestants on Fox's "The Rebel Billionaire," making sure they're angry, ill-informed, hyperbolic and have beautiful skin.
By Benjamin Wallace
November 9, 2004
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MTV's "Fraternity Life" brings back all the boneheaded bluster and enforced insularity of campus Greeks and their semi-anarchic pack mentality.
By Heather Havrilesky
April 17, 2003
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From "The Bachelorette" to "documentaries" on the Bunny Ranch, America is wallowing in boobs and butts like never before. But just how nasty do we wanna be?
By Heather Havrilesky
January 18, 2003
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A "Real World" star's sexual hijinks cause some grief for her brother -- a Daschle speechwriter whose colleagues are decidedly unamused.
By Jake Tapper
April 4, 2002
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 10, 2001
By Joyce Millman
July 10, 2001
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 3, 2001
By Joyce Millman
July 3, 2001
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The show that spawned reality television comes back for its 10th season, forgetting the lessons it taught everyone else.
By Andy Dehnart
July 3, 2001
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"Survivor" Amber gets naked, but not paid. Plus: Classic rock is dead; Republican senators wrestle Arnold Schwarzenegger; a "Real World" cast member's unusual quest for "social healing."
Read by Amy Reiter
May 9, 2001
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Amber shows some skin -- but nobody pays her to do it; Julia Roberts' head size debated by knitters. Plus: Classic rockers get the classic diss, and a "Real World" vet lands in real trouble.
By Amy Reiter
May 8, 2001
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000
By Joyce Millman
November 7, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2000
By Joyce Millman
September 12, 2000
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The adults are psychotic on "Big Brother" and "The Real World," but the kids are all right on "American High."
By Joyce Millman
August 14, 2000
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What reality TV shows should learn from one another.
By Andy Dehnart
July 12, 2000
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An adult Web site claims CBS's "Big Brother" TV program steers too close to its own online "reality show."
By Damien Cave
June 29, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, June 13, 2000
By Joyce Millman
June 13, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Weekend, May 5-7, 2000
By Joyce Millman
May 5, 2000
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The new reality series "Making the Band" exposes the emasculating truth about boy bands.
By Joyce Millman
April 3, 2000
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On American game shows, you answer questions and win money. In the rest of the world, you get naked and bob for false teeth in a bucket of pig eyeballs.
By Gavin McNett
March 13, 2000
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It's not what you know, but who you know -- and what they think of your hair -- that determines whether you'll survive!
By Carina Chocano
March 13, 2000
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I was willing to spring my gay porn past on my unsuspecting family if it would get me on the TV show "Survivor." But would it?
By Dylan James
March 13, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1999
By Joyce Millman
November 9, 1999
"The Real World's" Ryan speaks
"The Real World" offers Transgenderism 101
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