“Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real.”

American journalist and media consultant

Michael Wolff is an American journalist, media consultant, columnist, and contributor, known for his reporting on media and business. He has worked for USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter, and he was a former editor of Adweek. Wolff has written seven books. Among them are Burn Rate, published in 1998 about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News, a 2008 biography of Rupert Murdoch. He also co-founded the news aggregation website Newser. His work has earned two National Magazine Awards and a Mirror Award.