When looking into the messages that contemporary texts of Pop culture suggest, we may find that the message received by the viewer isn't always the message intended by the author. According to Umberto Eco, popular texts can be misread or even double read by it's receiving audience. An example of this misreading comes from Andy Medhurst, and how he found that the TV show "Batman" had underlying homosexual themes. The authors did not intend for the message to suggest these underlying themes, yet Medhurst received the message from a very different point of view. While Medhurst's opinion of the show may be of a minority point of view, his actions of interpreting and in fact misreading it are not. Different people can interpret many texts very differently. Depending on who you are, and the environment in which you come from, texts of popular culture can be looked upon in many ways. A piece of popular culture that I feel can be double read by an audience is the Jerry Springer show.
I feel that the message relayed by the Jerry Springer show is debatable among social classes. The two I"m most worried about are those of the high class and those of the low class. Since these two groups are from opposite sides of the social spectrum we can assume that the environments in which they live in are very different from one another. While it may not necessarily have to do directly with an economic income bracket, we can assume that their environments are influenced by this factor. What's more important is the effect that these environments have on them. I feel that the environment in which a person lives in tends to influence how they receive a specific message regardless of how it was intended. .
As an example of this, I would like to bring attention to those of the lower class. Typically, these people aren't ones that are career or family oriented. I believe that these people are moralistically low class and come from an environment where self respect and self worth barely exist.