I’m surprised that nobody mentioned the affect of the technology that was developed for movies and is being implemented in T.V as well.
Only the other day I watched, again, the brilliant (at least the idea behind it) movie “wag the dog”.
The bottom line is that what you see is not necessary what it is…news items can be manufactured like fantasy movies…direct quotes can be taken out of contest or miss-represented by simple editing…brain washing and manipulations are so easy.
A short quote from the movie: “of course there is a war with Bosnia, I saw it all on T.V”.

You missed my point totally.
I guess you didn’t see the movie (or the Hebrew translation is so far fetch you didn’t recognise the English name). There you see how, with the help of technology, news items are manufactured for the benefit of somebody.
My point was: one can’t believe to anything on T.V even if one sees it with his/hers own eyes.
A good example to the power of manipulative T.V is the rise of Bibi from total anonymity…who heard of him before his face filled the T.V screens?