Well I'll agree to disagree on a number of points here, but I respect your sentiment. I don't believe that the media is powerful. On the contrary, I feel that the media being weakened and focused on sensational content is the reason we're in this mess. While the European media was supposed to be one of the entities keeping government officials and Eurocrats in check, their systematic weakening has led to those failing governments to implement widely unpopular policies that only harmed the social fabric of the continent.