Four Tenets of Humanity:
A: Morality exists.
B: Greed exists.
C: B will exploit A whenever possible.
D: Humanity will be best served if we expose and publish as many examples of the three preceding conditions as we can.
Media Influences:
See: A Face In the Crowd (1957)
Read: The Age of Propaganda (Pratkanis, Aronson), Federalist Paper Number 10 (Madison), Manufacturing Consent (Herman, Chomsky)
Hear: Ball of Confusion (I personally favor the Love and Rockets version)