What would American society be like if there was no media?

The American society as we know it today can be described as busy, changing and always looking for new technology to get a hand on. So what would the American society look like if media was completely cut from the picture? That means there would be no communicating through text messages, online messaging programs such as AIM or ICQ or Skype. There wouldn't be any way to check your email or watch digital broadcasts. These are just a few of the things that are considered media and all of them have become a permanent fixture in many American's lives. If they were somehow null one day, Americans wouldn't know what to do (me included). We've become so dependent on these things that we have no alternatives if something did happen and media crashed. Our society as a whole would be much more slowly paced and boring in a lot of ways. People wouldn't be as connected to each other and what's going on in the world and it would be much harder to get news across to the public. We would go from a united nation to a nation with several different parts, all because media has become the backbone to our society.