The real root of the problem is education....or lack of it.
The media just follows the flavor of the day or week...and 90% of them are not very impartial, thorough, or truthful.
Most people, no matter what country you live in, just believe the propaganda that the media pumps at them all day long.
Then you have the schools....where most of the teachers push their agenda rather than teach everyone to look at all sides of a situation before deciding "for themselves" what's what.
Everyone is basically told what to believe...and are taught to blindly believe what they are told. And taught to ridicule anyone who has the opposite opinion of the "accepted" views.
Even when I was a kid I was aware of this.
Had a substitute Social Studies teacher come in for a week once in Grade 10. He was normally the superintendent for the schools in our area. He was teaching us about the American war of independance...with a twist. He told us that the American's would hide in the woods and attack the British soldiers in ambushes...and how cowardly that was. Then said that the American's got a taste of their own medicine in Vietnam.
I was no expert on those wars...but I knew enough. Enough to make my blood boil...still does.
Most of the teachers I had through the years weren't this bad...but they weren't great either. Only a very small handful had their heads on right.
So...
We have teachers teaching the kids how to be robots..and what to think instead of how to think.
We have the media feeding misinformation and specific leading info to all the robots who eat it up and spout it out like it's their own thoughts.
And then there are the Politicians who use the media, and are lead by the media. Reinforcing the "accepted" views, or creating new ones...to get the votes that they need to stay in power, climb the ladder some more, or make some money.
Any who try to be good get trashed by the media on every little thing they can find...while the media raises up those that spout the accepted rhetoric on pestles no matter what terrible things they may be doing or have done.
I don't see the media getting their act together and becoming truly objective any time soon.
Or the teachers...or the politicians.
It's like a snake eating it's own tail.
It's truly amazing that things aren't worse than they are. But it's annoying to know that things could be so much better too.
OKay....getting off my soapbox now.