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What is reality but that which we're exposed to? We're not talking about large-scale discrepancies between life and media, but more subtle differences that are easier to internalize. If you expose people to videos of people flying around like superman, nobody's going to believe that. But if you show them scenes of violence, or unusual sexual behavior, those are more believable. They don't contradict your ideas about what is possible, but skew your understanding of what's happening by presenting an uncommon possibility as a common one. Any contradictory evidence that comes from your own experience is more likely to then be dismissed as abnormal.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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