Criticism
Fans of the franchise have questioned the series' credibility. Media Takeout reported scenes from the season four episode "Law by Sheree", which took place in the courtroom, were staged. The judge who presided over the case, Bensonetta Tipton Lane, was a white female, but pictures of the individual in question later revealed the real judge was African American. It was later revealed that the scene was not fictional, and the judge who presided over the case was a part of Judge Lane’s judicial office, which is standard procedure.
More recently, Walter Jackson, who appeared as the boyfriend of former Miss USA and current "Housewife" Kenya Moore, revealed in a December 10, 2012, radio interview with V-103's Frank and Wanda that she had paid him to act as her boyfriend during the filming of the series; he explained that she called him for a favor to play her boyfriend on the show and then revealed she deceived the RHOA producers by intimating that they were soon to be married. Moore denied those claims.
Read more about this topic: The Real Housewives Of Atlanta
Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)