City Finds a Reality Show Hard to Watch.

For a city struggling to win respect and attract visitors, a reality television show might seem like a good thing. But to this city's boosters, ''Parking Wars,'' now in its second season on the A&E cable network, has been a public relations disaster. On the show, teams of parking attendants on Philadelphia's mean streets are seen ticketing, booting and towing cars. Hapless owners, some with hundreds of dollars in unpaid tickets, rant, plead or cry as their vehicles are impounded. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]