As holder of the "Most Dysfunctional Noobie" title (3 months running!! ), I will now comment...

1) Books are good. Magazines are good. Nothing replaces playing an f-load of hands... like 30K+ at least. It's kind of like reading about how to have sex... the damn books just never seem to translate! Huge difference between knowing and applying.
2) Forget TV. Useless. Turns your head into cream of wheat. And cream of wheat don't play good poker... Watch some Spenda or Jyms vids instead. It's like TV, only fuzzier (and Jyms voice keeps going in and out, but that's okay...) Plus they actually tell u sh!t that's gonna help....
3) Play 30K hands. At one place. At the same (or reasonably adjacent) limits. Sng's play very different than micro limit than micro NL than MTTs blah blah blah. I used to lose money at one so figured changing the type of game was the problem. Yeah... just meant that I never really was forced to work out the gritty or the nitty at one style. Now when I have a stretch of suckage, I go play Starcraft. I can suck on that for free!
4) If you can't beat 2NL over 20K hands, you can't beat 10NL... or 25, etc. The players only get better. If my Moms beats my ass at tennis on a daily basis, playing Serena isn't going to increase my win rate just 'cause she got more skills. That being said, I do feel you... Listening to how everyone "crushes" the lower limits when you sitting there running -14BB/100 going "where the f- my fish at???" doesn't feel good. But they are right. And their win rate proves it. Guarantee every one of these dudes posting winning game at 100NL+ can clean up from 2-25NL on any site, any day of the week (variance excluded...)

Now I'm gonna go back to my 39th 27o in the past hour... Yeah, that's right... I'm COUNTING UB... my "online poker is rigged" post gonna have mad statistics!