How simple would it be to end our media driven dementia using our democratically elected government?

The press is just as free as it's ever been in the us. You simply cannot use hate speech, no matter how much you believe in it.

This journalistic integrity you speak of used to be a thing and still is among some. But networks weren't making enough money from news, so they made it more interesting. And advertisers weren't making enough money from news, so they bordered on salacious. And TV stations weren't making the ratings from news, so they run after the most colorful and interesting story they can find regardless of its relevance. America's need for instant gratification led to 24-Hour a day news. It's a big planet, but in a culture that covers only its own shores, that's precious few stories to stretch into days and days and days.

And so we end up with opinion entertainment rather than journalism. One is water cooler talk, and the other is factual information.