food for thought

When the media gets into the way of things, it can be all too frustrating. How much can one put aside? I guess in life it's all about one's priorities, when people's priorities don't entirely converge, the differences can be unbearable at times. Here, person X has a priority being money, there, person Y has a priority being leisure time including TV etc, and somewhere else, person Z has a priority being lifestyles like cars and so forth.

Should one pull the stops? In fact, how does one pull the stops?