As a "fictitious" tv show, I question how the truth is affected. To me, when fiction beats truth to the timeline, the truth, when/ if ever revealed becomes a much harder pill to swallow (since it was first presented to you as fiction). So, in order to digest and accept the truth, you now have to take one more step... which is to acknowledge and reject your previously constructed fictitious belief so that you can replace and reconstruct your belief that that fiction was in fact never fiction at all, but instead it was the truth all along. I guess I question whether or not it functions as to really open up people's minds or whether it's used to condition/program people into locking down the truth as fiction?