What Influence Does Media Have On Us?

Personally I think media is bullshit first of all, it is used to distract us from what is really going on.  I don't know if you have noticed, but if you stop and think about it there is always a new issue that occurs right when everybody has just gotten over the previous one.  For example, for these last couple of years it's been nothing but black people against white police officers and I bet you that when that dies down there is going to be some other shit that they use to get are attention off of what is really going on in the United States.  Now don't get me wrong, racism is bad, but there is an even bigger problem going on in this country and people need to open their eyes and see it.  We the people of the United States have absolutely no say in anything at all, everything that is suppose to be controlled by the people is actually bought by the one per centers.