Something only students of history would know, criticism of govt and media has always existed, all throughout. Whatever format they took, the noobs never trusted either. That's nothing new.

Here is a long quote by Henry Adams (few will know of him, yeah), written in 1869.

Linked here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25109468?refreqid=excelsior%3A2a084e241b1da87df9836d30a1a65ba4&seq=1