interesting article,,,

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli


...of particular interest,,,

News increases cognitive errors. News feeds the mother of all cognitive errors: confirmation bias. In the words of Warren Buffett: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact." News exacerbates this flaw. We become prone to overconfidence, take stupid risks and misjudge opportunities. It also exacerbates another cognitive error: the story bias. Our brains crave stories that "make sense" – even if they don't correspond to reality. Any journalist who writes, "The market moved because of X" or "the company went bankrupt because of Y" is an idiot. I am fed up with this cheap way of "explaining" the world.


just food for thought,,,

I dont know if you already mentioned this one.
But for example when the media acuses someone based on
"evidence". Then the illusion will still remain. "where there is smoke..there is fire" So there will always be some suspicions remaining about that person. Eventhough the accusations have proven wrongly. Also when an event is constantly repeated on the news. Then the human mind will start to think that it actually might have happened. And contemplate them. Even to the point that those facts that are presented to us are ludricous.

These days, the media come in a variety of forms.
For example, the website ThinkProgress is a modern form of media.