This raises an interesting point. Instead of trying to lie about the united $tates' wars against exploited and oppressed people, the media could lessen the importance of "news" in the first place by encouraging people to focus on sadistic reality TV shows. This would kill two birds with one stone: the inculcation of sadistic thinking (or just feelings) in the population, and distracting the population from reality by giving them a "reality" (reality TV) that is not the truth.