Hyperreality is the inability to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Corporate media, Fox in particular, offers news that creates a hyperreality of real world problems and issues. Consumers of corporate television news--especially those whose understandings are framed primarily from that medium alone--are embedded in a state of excited delirium and knowinglessness. Corporate Media hasn't acted as a cohesive, protective "fourth estate" in several decades, instead gilding lilies such as the Iraq war, torture and the true extent of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Contemporary corporate news is best seen in a post-modern context of hyperreality. The news from US networks is based on the presentations of partially factual stories framed inside socio-emotional story lines that juxtapose "evil" with patriotism and Christian fervor. There are multiple examples of this, but we will examine two distinct cases. More below. FOX in particular. Who'd of thunk it? http://www.mediafreedominternationa...realilty-of-a-failing-corporate-media-system/
The late philospopher, Jean Baudrillard, said that the hyperreal is more real than the real: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/Anth206/jean_baudrillard_and_hyperrealit.htm
Network and Cable TV News...all of it (and a lot of other news media) is purely entertainment and, of course, a means to make money from selling advertising. In my opinion, if you have found one you like (or dislike), it is not a sign that it is better (or worse) than any other. It is only a sign that you agree (or disagree) with that particular one.
