As for why the news media became a brainwashing medium instead of a platform for distributing news, I think a lot of it has to do with the power of the internet

As for why the news media became a brainwashing medium instead of a platform for distributing news, I think a lot of it has to do with the power of the internet to bring in Outsider opinions into the brains of normal people.. in order to counteract this power of the internet, the media has to increase their own propaganda rate, and likewise the rest of the establishment has to do the same