Of course, the program planners, the writers argue that media reflects reality.  Others would say that reality reflects media.  Now, we are all adults, aren’t we?  We are all capable of making decisions on our own.  It is too simple a thing to say that the media influences us or that we influence the media.

I have long believed in what I have observed – media very much has the capacity to influence our actions and emotions.  After all haven’t you ever found yourself laughing or crying at a movie, theatre play, or even from a familiar piece of music, and then days or even weeks later thinking about the thing which touched you?  Slowly, these things have an impact.

However, after watching things over the past few years and most recently the past few weeks, it seems that the general public can be found, at least, partially at fault for the tremendous pandering the media performs on a daily basis.  I am not certain that there is some grand conspiracy where a group of people plot to distract the masses because it appears to be our Nature to be distracted.

The interplay is like some tragic, mythic hydra where the separate heads keep cannibalizing each other and more keep growing back.

It seems a bit fantastic that we choose to be distracted by the comedy of a young mother shaving her head or the tragic losses of Anna Nicole Smith?  Albeit, I think the distraction here has a lot more to do with money than with the tragedy of Danielynn’s loss.

What should we do?  Who knows – although, I think Hercules might be inclined to torch the heads and bury the root.  Irregardless the center of the issue appears to be unending and its lifeblood poisonous and until we can admit that, we will never take steps to correct it.