The Apollo program, seen live, unedited, and everywhere, became a genuine experience of global intimacy, and an early example of reality TV.
Shepard, who published an article in Anthropology News on the alleged misrepresentations, said the six-part series was an example of "reality TV reach[ing] new depths of irresponsibility".
The night the Mapplethorpe exhibition opened at the Washington Project was another good example of reality versus projection when it comes to the way people respond to Mapplethorpe's work.
They are the extreme example of reality television business success -- but that's not what it's like for everybody.
Jodorowsky gave a brief introduction to his practice, saying that "synchronicity is a mysterious thing," an example of "reality working with you, acting with you.
But while Q'Viva touts J Lo and Marc Anthony as making the dreams of "undiscovered" Latin artists come true in Hollywood -- or at least in Vegas -- it often reads like just another example of reality TV exploitation.
Stories can also serve as examples – instances of reality which are presented as proofs of some kind of norm.
(OC and Stiggs, a rambling, anarchic teen movie, was a cult hit in 1987, while Tanner '88, his 11-part TV series, has achieved considerable afterlife as a prescient example of reality-based political satire).
Ancient and Hellenistic philosophers offered three examples of the reality of the extrasensory: the numbers and mathematical formulas of Pythagoras; the forms (or "ideas") of Plato and the universals (substantial and accidental forms) of Aristotle; and the Stoic concept of the lekton, or "saying".
