- Networks make messages and then to audiences
             Lull's article shows that television is a powerful resource for human communication, especially in family situations. Lull, like Lesser says television is a form of social learning. He says TV's stories and themes employed by views may facilitate conversation. Television generates an alternate reality.
             - TV is not reality, but it reproduces the dominant sense of reality. Realism reproduces and makes sense of reality by ensuring that all links and relationships between its elements are clear and logical. Realism admits fantasy, Wonderwoman. It works by making everything appear realistic.
             Flitterman, The Real Soap Operas: TV Commercials
             In the Stam article he tell how we as viewers receive pleasure from watching television, no matter how bad the news is. Television grants the spectator the illusory ubiquity of the all-perceiving subject. Television allows us to share the literal time of persons who are elsewhere. He also says we oversee the world from a sheltered position. Television manufactures its own audience as well as the news.
             In Lesser's article he argues that television holds enormous and unique potential as an educational tool. He argues television functions as a sanctuary, it offers kindness, self-control, and affection. Television teaches kids about life. He also states that television can show children that there are other people out there going about their lives.
             Graber, Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide
             People do a good job in taming the information tide, they are able to take the information in manageable proportion.
             Miller essays says tragedy make for elaborate entertainment. Television shows the horror of war such as the Iraq cluster bombings. Images on television are interchangeable. The people reporting the story may think of it being "good," so thah make the conflict personified. ...