Lots of Crap on Television

So I made it home from work on time today. This doesn't happen all that often.
I usually make it home around 17:30 and turn on the television to catch the last of either Jeopardy or Just for Laughs Gags before the news.
Today I got home, turned on the TV (and this reflexive like habit is an issue I may bring up another time), and what is there>

CBC is showing some cartoon about dragons who race around a track.

CTV has Oprah talking to some prisoner over the phone while she 'with the assistance of some quack PHD' fire off pop psychology to an audience of lemmings hoping the great Oprah will teach them what to think.

global has the WORLDS WORST ACTING SHOWCASE... some stupid soap opera

CITY TV has an Indy Jone knockoff, except Harrison ford is replaced by some hot looking number wearing tight clothes and able to outrun anyone in the jungle while wearing hgh heels.

I'd may as well stay at work. I figure the most offensive of these 4 is the Oprah show. It seems to be assuming it's moral authority is a foregone conclusion and doesn't seem to allow for any different points of view. Right now they're talking about women falsely claiming to be war widows and how troubled these women are to be acting so despicably. How can they fill 60 mins with this tripe? How dangerous is it to have a 'PHD' and the worlds greatest know it all present only their points of view on issues that really should be kept private, before the masses of North Americans tunng in mostly because they need the following accomplished in 60 minutes:

issue presented

cause identified

cause analysed

actions taken

harm caused by these actions

what the correct actions / answers should be

reassurance that if you faced this issue, you now know how to handle it

People are sheep and for some reason today it's just really frustrating me.