Referential framing connects communication media with

Referential framing links communication media to reality by pointing messages back to the real world.

It anchors media content in actual referents, so audiences read it as describing what exists.

The notion of a fantasy world is the opposite, an imagined realm cut off from real referents, so it does not fit.

Self-regulation names internal control of conduct and has no bearing on how framing ties media to the real.

Morality disruptions point to breaches of ethical norms, not to the referential link between media and reality.

Framing that is referential grounds representation in verifiable, real conditions.