Before the web was in every house we had professional media often pushing crackpot theories and news agents had a whole section of monthly crackpot magazines, o

Before the web was in every house we had professional media often pushing crackpot theories and news agents had a whole section of monthly crackpot magazines, one of mine had them right next to the comic section to get picked up by impressionable young people. Long before all this "5g causes corona virus" in the early 90's my local paper would often have stories about cell phones causing cancer. Long before "china to blame for coronavirus" we had "legitimate" media pushing the link between Iraq and 911. Long before any WHO was at the center of conspiracy theories the UN was. Let's not even go into things like current affairs shows and fox news. The internet may have made you more aware of the amount of crazy out there, but it was always there.