“The question is who (by name) is behind the deception?”
That one is easy to answer: The managers of the various networks, newspapers, etc. If these managers demanded objective reporting, they would get it. But the managers are getting and giving out what they demand — deception. And I think it is concerted, orchestrated among them.
Not just the managers and powerful elite.
Just about EVERY Journalism Major graduating lately and getting entry reporter/news jobs is a fully indoctrinated and propagandized product of the communist university manufacturing process.
They’re all a bunch of starry-eyed believers in Social Justice and “Trump is LITERALLY Hitler”. Guilt-ridden haters of their own race, or avenging heroes of their own “oppressed” peoples/gender/sexual preference/non-Christian religion.
When and if they become managers, well, they’ll still be Leftists.