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Media literally mediate our relationship with social institutions. We base most of our knowledge on the government news account, not experience. We are dependent on the media for what we know and how we relate to the world of politics because of the media-politics connection. We read or watch political debates followed by instant analysis and commentary by "experts." Politicians rely on media to communicate their message. Similar dynamics are presented in other mediated events such as televised sports and televangelism. The increase of mass media in our day-to-day lives has fragmented families and split family evenings. For example, within the family, in the older days around a century ago, evenings would be spent with the whole family in a roo