Maybe you need to reexamine why you were so long, and if the media is controlling what you think.
No idea what you're trying to say here but the media does not control what I think. Steve Bannon's treachery is what changed my mind. Steve Bannon's failure to refute any of what's been reported has changed my mind.
You posted this to two people. It's a weird, gradiouse, condescending comment to make once, let alone twice.
Bannon is a media figure. So obviously what you think about him is "controlled" by the media. WIthout media Steve Bannon would be unimportant, and no one would know he was.
Because of media (that is his executive role at Breitbart) he's important. He (until today) controlled the largest far-right news outlet (Ranked #53 in the USA by Alexa).
If the media reports a bunch of good stuff about someone, and I start to think favorably about them, and then the media reports a bunch of bad stuff, and I think less of them I am not being "controlled by the media". I"m reacting to events based on current information.
Now if the events in the news are all lies, then that's manipulation. But in the case of the bannon saga I see no evidence of Lies. Bannon admits what he did.