That requires a certain capacity for compassion and empathy that cannot be instilled by any media. I would think that people who don't listen to acquaintances are unlikely to take more seriously what comes out of a TV set. But who knows?
For that scenario you describe to transpire, society would have to be structured differently. Wealth would not be concentrated in the hands of the few, who are not coincidently overwhelmingly white and male. Corporations would not be owned entirely by white men, and power would not be wielded almost exclusively by white men. People would be educated and socialized differently, and they would grow up less resistant to ideas of inclusion. If the word were not based on race, class, and gender inequality, people would not be so invested in keeping the majority of the population down for the benefit of themselves. Race is of course the last vestige of power, and has been since the late-17th century. No matter how poor a man was, he at least was not black, and that mattered a great deal. That basic phenomenon has sadly not changed, as all these posts crying bout "leave white men alone" demonstrate.
So given the nature of the society we live in where whiteness and maleness carries a great deal of privilege, even absent economic wealth, I think not. Too many people appear to be invested in keeping the majority of the population subjugated in whatever ways they can. For some their power is minimal, limited to working to shut people up online and drive them off a message board, but they guard it carefully. I have learned more about the performance of white privilege online than anywhere, especially observing people cry persecution that someone dares utter the word privilege. That they feel entitled to control speech and thought shows just how intractable their privilege is.
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