Messages in Media

It's pretty tough, dare I say impossible, to avoid sending an overarching message in a piece of media, whether the message was intentional or not. This is because media is created by people, and people are creatures of intent and of emotion. "Wait!" you might protest, "What about media created by computer programs (because those do exist)?" Computer programs don't spawn out of the ether, someone still wrote them, and there is a very high chance that that someone is, in fact, a human being. Even if the creator didn't have some intention, the person viewing their media might garner a message from it, and that message is valid. If I draw a squiggle on a piece of paper, that squiggle just might bring someone to tears because it reminds them of their dear grandfather's squiggles.
I find it somewhat fascinating how some people protest to messages in their media. Someone will point at content that strongly supports certain topics - maybe homosexuality, women's rights, or modern racism - while contently ingesting media that contains less controversial messages - like war from the American perspective. Obviously I can see why people would act in such a way: being exposed to certain things may be unpleasant because they might inspire uncomfortable feelings, and it's always easy to stick to the status quo.
This reminds me of how people will throw certain historical figures on pedestals and throw around a few choice quotes that, of course, uphold the status quo. For example, people love to spout random words of Martin Luther King Jr, they like to present him as the ideal for American activism, and yet, the very people who laud his words never seem to actually try to change things, but King said himself that it was the attempted neutral parties in a conflict that keep change from occurring.
But anyway, I've gotten off-topic: my main point is that everything has a message, complain about the message itself but don't complain about its very existence.