“ The shared forum of television is an arena for the declaration and confirmation of the “reality” of events. Protests, scandals, and disasters that have not been reported on radio and television do not seem to have “happened.” The Watergate scandals became “real,” not when the Washington Post reported the stories, but when network television news reported that the Washington Post reported the stories. ”
No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Joshua Meyrowitz (1985), p 90.
