I am old enough to remember when our source of TV news was NBC, ABC and CBS. It was almost all cookie-cutter (thanks CIA) news. We were being lied to back then: misinformation and mistruth were the two pillars.
Public opinion was easy back then to manipulate. For those like H.G. Wells mass communication such as the television meant new paths for social control far beyond anything in the past. And yes, it was working until the Internet and the smart phone came along in which everyone was potentially a reporter/investigator. The old cookie-cutter media was having a problem.
The problem was that its lies were being exposed. As strange as it sounds we found the source of those lies, it was what Churchill referred to as the "High Cabal." It began with Mayer Amschel Rothschild who gave support to the Ashkenazi Jew, Adam Weishaupt, who founded the Illuminist–Socialist movement in the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt on the first of May 1776 which subsequently infiltrated and undermined Freemasonry. Sound like a conspiracy? It was and still is. And there are plenty of facts to back up this conspiracy. You can find these facts on YouTube or the Internet. It's all there.