The commercials are depicting what they want us to think even though it's fake, while the tv shows are telling us what's really going on while pretending it's fake.
"It's not real, it's just a tv show," they all say.
The thing I notice is that a lot of the tv programming now will tell you right to your face what's really going on, but because we've all been taught that tv shows aren't real, they put things there that cause people to shrug them off or not care so much when it happens for real.
I've noticed it happens over and over in all kinds of different shows. The same messages keep repeating. Things about terrorists, vaccines, corrupt banks, etc. They don't make these things the subjects of the shows, they just put these quick messages in over and over so nobody really notices. Then when the real truth comes out later, it doesn't seem as bad to people because they've been hearing it over and over for years.
Yes - they absolutely do show you what's going on. I believe that it's more like "well you can't say we didn't warn you we were doing this shit - all you had to do was watch the television and think critically"... Unfortunately critical thought is not taught to people in their school system...