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What the host of “For Real: The Story of Reality TV” is really selling Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images No one ever believed that reality television was totally real. Thirty-one days before The Real World premiered on MTV in 1992 a one-off about eight young strangers living together in a New York City apartment that ignited the entire genre a New York Times critic sneered that “when television programmers talk about reality, prepare for a classic lesson in language debasement.” In 2000, the year Survivor debuted, Timereported that reality shows were “edited” and that “subjects adopt false faces,” practices “widely acknowledged by viewers and many participants alike.” ....