Is it the Messenger or the Audience ?

Do we continue to allow the nationwide media pool to provide us with the cultural junk food that provides no nutritional value or do we (to paraphrase the words of Howard Beale (actually Paddy Chayefsky the author) of the film “Network” from 1976) get “Mad as Hell and Not Take It Anymore!” Should we insist on greater responsibility and information from those we trust to speak truth to power and are we willing as a society to put down the candy for the plate of spinach ?