Not really. It's up to the person if he or she would get 'brainwashed' by what the media says. But one thing is for sure, many of the people are swayed by the media's perception of beauty. beauty is like one thing that the media almost has FULL control of.
I was making a presentation about the greek mathematicians and came across these lines from a particular site.
"Eudemus attributed to him the discovery that a circle is bisected by its diameter, that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal and that vertical angles are equal. It...