The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Do we watch the news for the information or for entertainment?
• Watch the news for information
• It provides the citizens for information across the world
• Information makes the news factual
• Its your personal choice what to view, news is not entertaining
• Fundamental reason for news is that it is not fictional

• Entertainment news provides alternative pleasures
• Use of 60 seconds of news suggests its celebrity gossip
• Entertainment suggests that news is unreal and made up

Do you receive the reality of the information or the ‘reality’ of the entertainment?
• Reality of the news provides information
• Reality of the news increases democracy
• Freedom of information means that all have access to the news
• News suggests intelligent information

• Reality of entertainment suggests that we passively watch the news
• It suggests that learning is entertaining
• Entertainment suggests pass time