One has to wonder how much disinformation we've been fed before Algore invented the internet, how many of our world views are based on the BS we were spoonfed for fifty years.
Thankfully, I've always been a pig-headed contrarian.
The '92 elections bagging on the VP and the riots that resulted from constantly showing an edited clip of the Rodney King beatings were the epiphanies that caused me to doubt the MSM. Thankfully the net was just coming in around then.