The media is more responsible for this trend than any other institution. Yet it hides behind the U.S. Constitution whenever anyone tries to take it to task - to ask it to accept it's responsibility or objects to the way it panders to the public. Most people probably agree with much of what I'm saying. We start with ourselves. This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who's done any self-assessment work, learning about ourselves and why we do what we do.
Personal responsibility lies at the core of all our social conditions - good and bad.
This starts with taking a frank look at our own role in how we perpetuate a dysfunctional media. Taking a close examination of our lifestyles, our routines, our habits, should tell us how we are complicit in this trend that is depressing us so much. It certainly is easier to blame others. But finger-pointing is only a ruse, a childlike attempt to transfer accountability for situations which we help to perpetuate. We are complicit in creating the reality in which we find ourselves, but refusing to own up to it.