“I say it is surprising because I never expected such a juggernaut of unscrupulous journalists to let it be boosted whereas old school journalists who know better tend ti let it go unchallenged as they are demoted and threatened.”
You have to let go of the notion that they are “unscrupulous journalists” - they are neither, and the old school journalists are long gone. Journalism itself is dead.
The current crop are not unscrupulous but “true believers” and not journalists but “willful propagandists” marinated in 16 plus years in re-education camps that we used to call schools and colleges.
Journalism students today no longer care about reporting who, what, where, when and how, but about “making the world a better place” and that better world is defined by the leftist agenda instilled in them in their years in the re-education camps. Their job is to manufacture “narratives” to push their agenda, not to objectively report facts.
The left has done a superb job of gaining control of all the institutions - schools, media, entertainment, agencies, foundations, sports, churches... It’s truly a wonder that our side is still standing... we’re barely hanging by a thread.
The corporate news media is dying. Alternatives are sprouting up.
There’s a good development from the science angle in this news. I’ll explain later.