Your New Word of the Day: "Frankenbite"

Still my astonished heart! TIME magazine has revealed that "Reality TV" is being doctored in order to seem more dramatic and interesting. The practice is so widespread that it is spawing new words to describe it. Frankenbiting is the new verb for adding in bites of sound, words, or phrases that were not there before, thus potentially changing the meaning or impact of the portrayed event. One of the contestants on "The Batchelor" has charged that suspicious noises and a phrase spoken at a different time and in another context were added to the finished showtape and the result seemed to imply that she and her hunk were doing rather more in the bushes than talking about the starry night. This tempest in a tv pot was provoked by the underpaid folks who do the doctoring. It seems they want entrance to the writers unions where the salaries are better. To be fiction or not to be that is the question. And the answer! On average follow the money. With life reality keeps getting in the way.