21.   The infighting that led to that compromise exposed the deep ambivalence with which the television world is greeting the proliferation of reality programs.

22.   The race for reality programs promises to become even more heated.

23.   The question that the FCC may now answer is whether reality television programs should be held to the same standards as game shows.

24.   The unstated goal of most reality programs is to make its participants look like idiots.

25.   Then reality programs nearly ruined television, taking us on a painful, circuitous detour from which we have yet to return.

26.   This is in keeping with a general drop in viewers for reality programs.

27.   We have worked very hard to make sure that people who are involved in reality programs are appropriate to the challenges they are going to face.

28.   We need virtual reality programs that teach children virtual reading, virtual writing and virtual math.

29.   When you wear the goggles, the twin monitors give the three-dimensional view required by virtual reality programs.

30.   With a new Dallas-based reality program promising to expose adulterers this fall, TV critic Ken Parish Perkins asks, how far will we go?