The book Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is about a boy named Mitch who goes to visit his old dying professor Morrie every Tuesday. During many of these visits, Morrie suggests that pop culture and the media are bad. He talks about how pop culture tells you what and what not to say or do, and how the media puts ideas in your head that may or may not be true.

The news tends to cover the stories that are interesting and get ratings, while ignoring the stories that are more dull, but more important. During the book, Mitch is involved in a strike at the newspaper company that he works at. During the strike he realizes how the paper covers the less important things. The book was set during the height of the OJ trial. That's all that they would cover. He noticed how they did...