Correlation between the real world and "television answers"

I think there is a strong correlation between hours spent in front of the television and the tendency to believe that what is portrayed is reality.  The more television the person consumes, the more likely they will probably be to think that it is real.  I believe everything shown on television is portrayed in a way that is very believable to any person.  A person that consumes this type of media would have to be very critical of everything they were watching, which most often isn't going to happen.  For example, this theory makes sense to me because I believe a lot of young girls sex role attitudes come from television consumption.  Many young girls and teenagers think that relationships or their role in sex should and will be just like what they saw on television.  Then when this doesn't happen, I think a lot of girls don't think they did something right because roles weren't the same as the ones they saw on TV.  The more a young girl consumes this type of message, the more likely she will believe it to be true, thereby fantasizing a role that can never really be obtained.

In terms of the effects of media on myself, I'm definitely gullible in terms of TV being reality.  I started watching "House" this summer and became obsessed with the show.  After about a week and 10 episodes in, I started to think that I might have some of the diseases that were diagnosed on the show.  Obviously, most of the cases that House works with are extremely rare, but the idea still stuck with me that I might be that one in a million case that would have this totally abnormal disease.  I had to stop watching the show because it became a little too real for me; which is ridiculous because it's totally not real, but I still had the idea stuck in my head that it was.  It probably also didn't help that I'm kind of a hypochondriac, so I probably shouldn't have started the show in the first place.  But I see where people can find TV reality to be true to the real world.  We definitely have this idea in our heads that if it's on TV, it must be real, but most often times it's not accurate at all.  

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