Quote Originally Posted by Howetzer View Post

You point out the media. Funny I had just been going off to my sister on the negative role howard stern has set for all the degenerative talk hosts today...
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Yup. The media is (unfortunately, sometimes) the voice of society. So many people like to think that we are all in control of our own destinies but much of the media (from news brodcasts to daytime tv commercials) are produced with the intent to influence society. Whether that influence be geared toward a demographic acting a certain way, buying a certain product or thinking that a certain radio program "shock jock" is the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you tactically streamline the choices of entertainment/information/instructional sources that a community has, it's much more easy to corral their collective conscious - a sad fact, I think.