Whether they’re selling exercise equipment, cooking appliances, car wax, “oldies” music collections, or miracle wrinkle serums, infomercials have a unique way of capturing our attention and curiosity.
Still, these same infomercials are annoying for the following reasons:
1. Most infomercials over exaggerate the problem they wish to solve
One large part of the traditional sales process is to establish a need for the product in the customer’s mind. For most infomercials, this is [...]

With no end in site to the growth of this popular genre, reality TV continues to break new ground in expanding what viewers accept as “entertainment.”
On any given night, you can flip through the channels and watch junkies trying to score on A&E, “Tools” getting schooled on VH1, or a previously 650 lb. virgin trying to win a date on TLC.
Still, despite any voyeuristic pleasure you get from watching conjoined [...]