The media fear-mongering is driving me insane.
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Then stop listening.
It keeps you thinking about the things they want you to think about. If you start thinking about the things you experience in the world, wrong might be your thoughts.
I'm not sure who the quote is from but to paraphrase, "if you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed, if you do read it you're misinformed"
Mark Twain. I don't know if he was just a rebel or if everyone distrusted news media at that time, and only in this century started getting brainwashed by them.
He hated a lot of the shit he was seeing from the establishment of his time period; which (honestly) mirrors a lot of what we see today.
It absolutely is. It's the same scam that NPR uses to sustain itself.