This has been a thing for many, many years (my guess is, since 5 minutes after journalism was invented). See "yellow journalism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

This has been a thing for many, many years (my guess is, since 5 minutes after journalism was invented). See "yellow journalism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%80%93American_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_of_the_Spa...).