Yes. The swaying of public opinion is thousands of years old. But now it's far easier, much cheaper, and can be done at a much greater scale. This is especia

Yes. The swaying of public opinion is thousands of years old. But now it's far easier, much cheaper, and can be done at a much greater scale. This is especially so when only a few companies are really able to do this. In the U.S there has a been a consolidation of media control. Too few players have the control and so what is happening now is more dangerous.