Hey, allow me my foolish youth.
Point I was making was that they used to make believe they were informing us. Now they’re open about their manipulations, noble cowboys steering the ignorant herd. Just ask them.
You had to be able to actually know the facts of a particular situation to know that they were not informing, but lying through their teeth; I suppose, if one was largely ignorant of a situation, then they might have been seen as informing.
But I went through the Vietnam was were the truth was had to come by unless one got a letter from a buddy or something came across on the TTY (teletype machine) that wasn’t otherwise classified.
Then the whole War on Natural Resource Harvesters Nixon began was spun by the press, but being heavily involved in the commercial fishing and logging industries, every broadcast every morning and Sunday paper were nothing but lies distortions, omissions and misdirections. The public lapped it up, calling for our deaths among other invective.
So nothing new now, just more polished and just as virulent, else every one would be voting for DJT. Or at least not voting for the radical communist democrat party in any form from dog catcher to school board.
They never made believe, its just the public looked at the talking heads and wanted to believe the heads believed what they were saying, aka the guidable public. Rationalization: the second oldest profession.