A few days ago I was discussing with Irene - my fellow student who I am writing my thesis with - about how powerful media is. We both agreed that media seems to focus too much on "extremes" when it comes to their reporting, so much that "normal" is highly underrepresented.
When featuring - for example - articles about immigration, they usually just focus on criminality committed by immigrants. Occasionally they will write an article about this one immigrant that learnt a language in three months and did accomplish something exceptional. But newspapers are mostly focused on writing "clickbait" headlines to stir up the pot and generate public interest.
Yet the average immigrant rarely gets represented in the media. The immigrant that used a couple of years to learn the language, who goes to work in the morning and takes care of family in the evening, that goes to the cinema and lives a normal life never gets mentioned. Even though these are the majority. Because media fails to put things into perspective, the average person might have the wrong impression that anything that has to do with immigration is related to criminality, ergo all immigrants are criminals.
Young people might be under the impression that you can either be Einstein or a loser. There is not middle ground. I'm sure you understand what I'm trying to say here.