just another stage

 the bard was correct – except this day and age the acting is shoddy, the script written by overeducated hacks, and the audience so dumbed-down and bezombified they don't even realize their minds are being injected with 100 percent grade-A angus bullshit.

so the puppets on the tube tell the rubes what to think, feel, say and do (or what not to think, what not to feel, what not to say, what not to do...same shit).

There is no “other” story – the story is all the same: you are either a sheep or a black sheep that thinks it's a wolf and you are following a wolf in shepherd's garb. 
End of story.