[therealjumbo]

Biased and manipulated news is a spectrum like security. You can find instances of anything in the past of you look hard enough. We are currently in a time of more bias and manipulation than the 60s/70s.

Additionally, pointing out that Facebook lacks any fundamental principles and is just a reed in the wind is a great observation.

[lazide]

Not even close - look up COINTELPRO and how many of the letters that were sent by the discoverers of that information ACTUALLY made it, let alone how few that did make it actually got published. Hint : very few.

The media has always had to kowtow to some degree to local authority, and there is always the element of ‘the truth we choose to believe’ (or are being told to believe) being published over harder reality. The west tends to be more transparent than most, and more honest than most, but everyone is very far from, and has always been very far from, any sort of unbiased view.

[therealjumbo]

COINTELPRO was a thing, yes, but now almost all news is manipulated. Then stuff related to those stories was, big difference.

>The media has always had to kowtow to some degree to local authority,

Yes, that's what I mean, to what degree? That degree is much greater now than it was in the past, except the one doing the manipulation isn't necessarily the government.

[pessimizer]

> We are currently in a time of more bias and manipulation than the 60s/70s.

No, we are not.