Television in this sense serves as a reflexive medium through which we can see the values of the culture that creates and watches it. Robocop actually starts out with a newscast. Not just any newscast, it is a montage of 16 individual screens and boxes, inside of each is a separate news story. You give us three minutes, We'll give you the world. This is no coincidence.
TV here is entertainment, and the news is no exception.
In Robocop 's world, television has to pack as much story into 30 seconds and a 15 inch screen as possible or else people will change the channel. Robocop takes these little truths about the television culture and warps them only slightly. In Robocop , thieves and business men are actually one in the same. Only one has a nicer wardrobe. Basically it starts out with a man in a white coat and a suit with a stethoscope around his neck.