Lyngar states that his father’s reality as resulting in passive , the Mean world view of the world around father deriving from his long-term exposure to sole Fox News. The Mean World syndrome as described in “ Growing Up With Television ,” by Morgan, Shanahan,and Signorielli, narrates over exposure to television to cultivate the image of a mean and dangerous world. Comparing to the light viewers, heavy viewers are most likely to say that most people “ cannot be trusted ,” and most people are only “ look out for themselves”( Gerbner and Signorielli). Lygar’s father , shows symbol of cultivation stemming from heavy viewing since he does not trust anyone besides his only source of media. In Lyngar’s article , he states father denies to trust