Subtext Messages
	Covering Media defines sutext as, "the message beneath the message; the underlying, or implicit, message that is being conveyed by medial content." To better explain this definition, the author uses an example of the sitcome Friends. The text goes on to say that the underlying message (subtext) is since all six friends are white then subtly the audience is learning to choose best friends of the same race. I disagree with this statement.The show Friends came out when I was an adolesant; the time that the book says is a volunerable state. I watched the show weekly, but didn't get this "hidden" message that all my friends should be white. I have friends of different races. The author is looking too deeply into the show, and seeing it for what it isn't.
	This extreme outlook on Friends parallels with the media's erruption of how rap and/or rock music "brainwashes" the listners to convey violent acts. This is just a bias opinon that just shows that Americans aren't ever responsible for their actions; they need a finger to point at whose falt it really was.
	I really believe that the writer should have put in a better example than this one. There are "real" shows, writings, and plays with subtext messages that we are familiar with that could have better occumpanied the text.
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