I believe a lot of things on news programs are similar to the story "The Allegory of the Cave" The people in the story are cut off from the world and only know what they are told. When we watch television programs and news programs we can only know what broadcaster and others are explaining to us. We see terrible things when we watch and dont even flinch, but if we can relate to the situation and have had something like that happen to us then it is a different story. Just like the people in the story we cant go back to the time when we didnt know what it was like. We cant just forget how we felt or what the situation was like. Television and news programs especially is just like in the story where they were only shown pictures of what the world is like, but until they saw it for themselves they couldnt truly understand.