Torture

Some of John Oliver's examples represent the cultivation theory in that we tend to live in the reality of the television world believing that things happen that don't really happen in the real world. He talks about how they are torturing prisoners to get information out of them, which doesn't seem to be working because they continue to commit crimes. Another example that he talks about is that the fact that other countries could be portraying us differently because of the way television shows portray violence or torture. He says that torture seems to work on tv (it helps to move the plot along), but in real life it doesn't seem to work that way. Another example of the cultivation theory is that he says 57% of Americans believe that torture through interregation actually works, which is based on the cultivation theory.