rs) choosing which aspects of an event or staged happening will be shown to the television audience. They choose those aspects which fit into a plausible story line, or, what Barker calls, a narrative. Also, they have a particular point of view, or political agenda: During the Iraqi war this agenda was to portray the coalition forces as the 'good guys'. This process of choosing highlights and foregrounds particular aspects of an event and neglects and marginalises other aspects. In short, the television's camera gaze constructs a representation of reality for the viewer which highlights and foregrounds a particular way of seeing the world, or creates a particular reality effect, while neglecting other viewpoints.
             A second way that the television media creates a reality effect is through overcoding. Overcoding occurs because of the monologic character of mass communication. In order to explain monologic communication, I will compare it with dialogic interactions.
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