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• 289-As the quote says, life is full of "ifs" but in order to create a medium that requires little additional thought to understand the large majority of media takes these "ifs" out creating a black and white, right and wrong situation. When one gives the subject a moment of thought it becomes clear that tv does regularly create one clear cut protagonist and one clear cut antagonist. Superman is good, only does good and his enemies are bad and therefore only do bad. The news reports stories as true as possible but there is still an indiviudal who the audiance is expected to side with and another indiviudal who is the antagonist for that individual. TV and other forms of mass media are very prominent in today's culture and in turn the people who have been soaking up this particular style of thought have translated it into their own way of thinking. If an idividual were asked if someone is both good and bad the idividual would most likely find it hard to give an answer, possibly deflecting to something along the lines of "Well he or she is mostly good or mostly bad." This becomes evident when one looks at politics and how candidates and elected officials talk about members of their oposing party. Rarely does a politican congradulate or even acknowledge that a member of another party is competent enough to tie their own shoelaces. There is the good, the bad, the smart, the dumb, but there is absolutely no normal.