Try to imagine yourself outside the fishbowl, and look at things from a longer term perspective. Look at which things the media attacks. It attacks Congress, it attacks the Bill of Rights, it attacks trial by jury, it attacks our whole constitutional democracy. The fact is that our system of government isn't the problem. Here's one of the major ironies of this situation.
Government corruption is one of the strongest arguments used to undermine our current system.
You might say corruption is when the corporate fox gets into the public henhouse. The government is supposed to be the wire fence to keep the fox out. The alternative to democracy, in the current American context, is fascism. Make no mistake.