KILL YOUR TELEVISION!
I stopped watching television, and stopped listening to mainstream media radio stations, in 1991.
The only exceptions being when on the road in a hotel room, when I was a guest in someone's home, or when I used a VCR to screen rented videos of my choice.
Result:
Slowly but surely I found myself living in the real world.
I now research my own news on the internet from a wide variety of sources, and then draw my own conclusions as to what are the facts, and who is spreading lies and propaganda.
My attitudes and values regarding America and the world are rock solid; being in no way based on a steady diet of Britney Spears, Madonna, Paris Hilton, The Donald, Kofi Annan, Olmert, Neo-Cons, Demo-Communists, phony health warnings, phony medical breakthrough "news", evil Big Pharma drug pushing advertising, and every possible mass media deceit.
There is also a wealth of quality music and entertainment to be researched and enjoyed on the internet, but almost nothing of the sort is now produced in the United States or the UK.
Want football?....Go see it live.
Want to read some great bestsellers?...try the Bible cover to cover, or the great literary works now considered Classics.
It's the easiest thing in the world to do....simply turn the TV off and unplug it; search the internet and shortwave radio for information that is not shoving "The Homosexual Agenda", "The Womens' Movement", or the "We Need Dialogue With Moslems" down our throats.