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.

Ernie Covax- Clip "Pulls out a shotgun in Opera and kills the Opera singer."

- He looks to high-culture for questions

TET-Offensive- The Vietnamese holiday of the lunar new year. When South Vietnam was invaded by North Vietnam. When highly respected television anchorman Cronkite somberly raised questions about the war on the evening news, President Johnson sensed political trouble. Baughman explained it as a shock.

Appearance of Totality- Multi strategy of appeals. We watch and dilute reality.

Television - Early developers didn't understand the benefits of television. Just like radio developers didn't see the far-seeing future.

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