—their traditional methods of controlling us failed utterly I abhor this victim mentality.
No one “controlled” or “controls” anyone.—
The point is, the LSM is trying to influence the apolitical, mushy middle, the people that don’t read beyond the headlines, the people who thoughtlessly absorb the conventional wisdom.
The LSM is very good at cowing these people.
It's called sheep herding. Some of the herders do it in a little black dress while secretly living with leftists.
Some of them do it on the 8Pm news, acting mostly conservative in order to get ratings, but when the time is just right they support the left position and call it "balanced' so you don't catch the game being played. I call the later, the O'illy factor.
I could go on..but Ann Coulter and O'Reilly are the two players who come to mind.