If you haven’t seen it, go out and rent the movie Wag the Dog. My favorite quote from this movie happens right after a few of the characters survive a plane crash. One character finds a small portable TV, on which less-than-agreeable news is playing. In anger, she tosses the TV to the ground, breaking it.
Robert DeNiro: Leave it alone, will ya? What did the TV ever do to you?
Lady: It destroyed the electoral process.