Taking a deep breath and hoping this isn't misinterpreted as negative. I'm not really sure if your focus is on society or the news media reporting on it. I'll take teh simple part first. The news media reports what affects viewers/readers/listeners. Also news coverage is is based on what attracts those viewers/readers. The bottom line is the bottom line.
It's also manipulative and/or entertaining as most media is.
The media (news and entertainment) doesn't just reflect and report on what happens in society. It also helps to shape society and culture and what people talk/think about. And even how they view these things. Okay enough about that.
You can't escape. You can be involved e.g. Anika's smog problem. I'd imagine that there are people organized to try to do something to resolve that if it's industrial pollution. Joining in those efforts would be proactive. It's her home. I'm sure she would rather try to fix what's wrong than escape to Antarctica. But here's the thing. People have very different ideas of what is good. If that valley has a smog problem because of industrial activity, the people involved in the industry are going to have an entirely different view on whether the smog is a problem.
And you can relate that to your wish for a perfect president. We all have different ideas on what needs fixing. To me it might be not enough regulation to prevent an industry from causing pollution that would fill a valley with smog.
To someone else it would be too much regulation.
There will never be a perfect president. All elected officials come into office owing favors to someone. The average citizen doesn't have the money or influence to be one of those owed favors.
As far as the violence and crime unnecessary wars etc... that has always been part of life and probably will always be present.
I'm not sure I'm even on the subject you intended. I have a hard time thinking in black and white
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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
Well then you are most definately invited to Antartica if I ever own it 
I don't think it says anything about weakness, I think it says more about the size of your heart. People will say all kinds of things negative about feeling this way, they have many many years to me, but in my opinion, it's them trying to make up for the fact that they just don't care and they are trying to make that right by somehow degrading my desire to help or fix things.
If more people wanted the world to be perfect, perhaps things would be different. But people seem to live on drama. The more "interesting" the story the better. I'd like to hear a story that goes along the lines of "I was born with no problems,my mom and dad raised me and were there every step of the way 100% supportive and caring and now I graduated college with kids of my own and now I'm running for president because this country needs some fixing" and they actually fixed it. That seems a better story than anything you see in movies. Too bad it's far from reality...
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