Reality television programs are not just a television program, they are a broad media sphere, driven toward appealing to the public sphere in order to create profit. 

Well in my opinion this isn’t just reality television, it’s most media productions. In this day and age, if you’re sticking to one form of media in order to produce some kind of work and this isn’t a strategic move, you’re doing it wrong. People engage with a huge range of different media forms per day, if you want to be noticed or create some sort of effect, you have to integrate different media forms in your one endeavour.

Accessibility of media production devices is creating an avalanche of rubbish work (in comparison to professional work). 

I completely agree with Adrian when he said that you can’t compare documentation media to story media. Anything that was created with intent and was planned is immediately going to be more creative  than mere personal documentation  or random videos of cats.

There’s also this idea that amateur work that might not be to the standard of professional work is becoming more and more prevalent and this is true, because of the democratisation of media form and media devices. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it makes it more difficult for people like me who are trying to create work and get noticed, to achieve anything. In a way this is still a good thing because it means you have to push yourself to create really good work in order to be noticed.

Unprofessional is uninhibited.

This is a really good point. As soon as someone else’s expectations are placed on your work you begin to doubt it and change it and conform. This isn’t always a good thing. Say you win a government grant to create a short film. Your equipment quality and actors might improve but the things you can do will be limited. No longer can you criticise the government, or show certain themes.