>However, if we account for the fact that all media contents I filtered
>through community in most countries (i.e. people discuss what they seee
>and collectively "decide" what is believable and what is not), but in
>the US that discourse is limited due to to the solitary nature of TV
>viewing - the impact of the medium is more diect and greater.
Eh? Americans talk about TV a lot - at work, at home, at play, everywhere. Where did you get the idea they don't?
Doug