[SmirkingRevenge]

I think the perception that liberals control the media actually comes a bit from Hollywood and celebrity culture, which is more Progressive than average. People kind of conflate all that with news media (and there is genuine overlap sometimes).

But mainly it's driven by right-wing media propaganda. It was never really true, not even really a little. But even so, you can listen to hours and hours of content per day from right-wing personalities driving anti-media grievance. It's been that way for at least two decades.

To change the perception, far-right propaganda has to be countered or stopped. If the Ellison's and Weiss start meddling with CNN, it's probably not to counter far-right propaganda, but to spread even more.