I disagree. The media shoves it down our throats and decide what we want to hear. Kind of like MTV a few decades ago, they shoved that music down our throats until we liked it.
Well, I dunno. If everyone just changed the channel (or, better yet, shut off their TV's) when this kind of stuff comes on, the ratings would reflect that, and the sponsors would start to take notice. As much as it seems like we're getting all this crap shoved down our throats, I think it's still our fault...well, it's the fault of whichever subset of the population is monitored for ratings purposes, anyway.