Having cohabited with a Sociology/Anthropology university-student while she was in the midst of their thesis I have come to see that the perception from where one thinks from while making a comparison to reality would make it necessary for the "media of truth" to be factual.
Otherwise reflecting on broad-casted "taped-dribble" would lead to a mindset of the same.
Looking at a window covered with "old newspapers" instead of "looking out" the actual window has one trading in nostalgia for fact.
Fairy-tales were written so one might seek out the truth...
Not so one would write an analysis of the fairy-tale.
A person who steals their mother's purse will submerge their mind into anybody's "stool" of antiquity.