No it isn't you lunatic.

The media alone isn't enough to form opinions for other people. I would argue upbringing and education are much stronger. The media acts as "confirmation bias" in certain scenarios, but if you're personally educated on a subject, you're most likely not going to pay attention.

A good example, I had a debate last week on this board about Africa, and I brought up how the media does a horrible job at showing the huge amounts of progress being made on the continent. Basically, all the pictures showing bullshit wars and poverty don't actually reflect daily African life where countries are starting to modernize and build self sustaining infrastructure to meet the Native people's needs. Now, most Westerners are clearly ignorant of this and fall prey to the "mud hut" stereotypes, but for people like me who have obviously done their own research, they quickly see through the media's whitewashing and are completely immune to the nonsense.