>>2608647
OK so I may have been off by a few decades, or thousands of years depending on how you look at it.
I think the difference today is instant communication anywhere in the world (I'll avoid globe in deference to our FE cousins present, been down that road kek).
The implementation of the telegraph and in particular international telegraph could control the narrative to some extent but it wouldn't be perfect. Occasionally I see old newspapers with diferring versions of historical events (e.g. Titanic) so there may have been times when the message wasn't clear and a story had to be run.
What I was mainly referring to was the widespread carbon copy stories that appear today. In my local paper I have to look up the name of the journalist now, they don't attribute the source any more (often WaPo).
This has typically been blamed on the death of the legacy media, eg newspaper, radio, free to air TV - so newsrooms are underfunded (or non existent), hence more rip and read, wire stories, multiple channels under one roof etc.
I think that's the way (((they))) like it though, and why we are seeing such a push in to 'new media' by them, and the attacks on the far right alt media. (and by far right I mean far away from extreme left, eg centrist or mildly conservative kek)
But yeah, it just seems they really perfected it in the last decade, when they really locked everything down in all forms of news and entertainment.
What really led me toward the red pill was Last Week Tonight from mid 2016. I had a great laugh at Donald Trump and his antics for a few episodes, and then a few more. Then he won but it didn't stop, and a couple of months after the election it was still going. Then it dawned on me that it was wall to wall character assassination, not just for partisan manipulation to win an election, it was something else entirely. So I stopped watching that stuff and started seeing the same pattern in news media, TV programs, etc. and eventually lead me here.
So yeah, uncontained brain dump done. If I don't have to put lb on this I will be very surprised.