The News media was better at hiding their hatred for Reagan. That doesn't mean they weren't continually working toward his demise. The same tricks are being played on President Trump we just have alternate sources to find out the truth and the MSM's actual agenda.
The delayed hostage scandal was in Reagan's first 100 days. They beat that issue to death. The difference then was they had a pretense of being objective which would mean some small percentage of reporting would be positive. Today they've dropped the pretense of objectivity and the MSM has devolved to tabloid levels.
Do you somehow not understand this?