“How did the media become the primary enemy of a free people?”
The left pushed to take over the media, very deliberately to change the country (called “making a difference”). As the leftist programs failed more and more, they had to come up with more and more outlandish excuses to account for the failures. This moved them into incredible realms of irrationality, until they are where they are now, dedicated to the downfall of the Constitution in the name of “fairness”.
That's totally true. And the "making a difference" shibboleth became common during the Kennedy years. RFK used to say "No man can make a difference, but every man should try", or something close to that, and making a difference was often associated with the Peace Corps and Vista and other do-gooder, federal programs. And then making a difference became part of the empty-headed, leftist lexicon.
Making a difference is usually a sign of starry-eyed dreamers and utopians. Then there are some who will even use the phrase "save the world" which I think is a sign of outright insanity, a condition often found in the various environmental religious movements.