Here at Jossip, we can totally understand why people hate Reality TV stars. Especially if you live on your quiet little Fire Island beach house, and a group of drunken 20-somethings in bikinis come around and slut it up, acting like they live in some horrible place like the Hamptons.

The helicopters: annoying. Camera crews taking over the beach: very annoying. Being forced to see the cast of One Ocean View in your local Fire Island bar: likely unbearable.

But complaining that this is going to ruin the reputation of your community? Come on. Nobody actually thinks that the normal people who live in these towns are anything like the celeb hungry kids who audition to for the "reality" of tequila shots and shower scenes. And all these middle aged rich people are upset because they think the gaggle of guzzlers under 30 are giving them a bad rap?

“It’s not porn,” insisted one of the executive producers, Laura Korkoian. “It’s more about strangers living together and networking with each other. It really is the story of the mid-20’s.”

How do they think the rest of the mid-20's folks around the country feel? They were all prepared for a reality porn show and they get "networking." It's really so unfair.

Reality TV, the Unwelcome Guest [Allen Salkin, New York Times]