Well in my opinion the election showed that “the media”, i.e. NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc., is talking to +-30% of the population. The right-leaning media including YouTube and the blogsphere, etc., is probably talking to another +-30%. Then there’s an almost equally large group in the middle that doesn’t really hear about anything that doesn’t involve Kim Kardashian.
So, we don’t really need to worry about “the media” very much, they’re in their eco-chamber, but they don’t influence very much outside of it. As long as we’re united and enthusiastic, and we can every now and then get something across to the Kardashian viewers, then we’re doing pretty well.
But the point being, it would take a lot to generate the kind of mass hysteria implied by the OP.
The media were bought out--the larger orgs, in 1915 and 1917. The oligarchy has extended their control since then. And, they have refined their mass mind-control-through-propaganda techniques extensively and more and more powerfully.
Such that--about 60% of the population--DEPENDING--on various factors and contingencies--CAN be manipulated wholesale by the oligarchy's MSM.
Throw in some exotic RF etc wave form mind control tech plus some chemicals in the water tech etc. etc. and they have a LOT of power already--and getting more such.
Otherwise, I don't think OTHUGA would have stood that much of a chance.
Even as horrible as Shrillery was as a candidate--the MSM STILL succeeded in almost pushing the lying, thieving, corrupt, child raping, satanic ceremony holding bw*tch over the line. That still gives me shivers to think of it.