You've always had controlled media— corporate controlled media— it just happens to be dressed up as free. It's always reflected the opinions and interests of the capitalist class who exercise the power to distort and depict reality and the *truth* however they desire.
This is what I do know chat: you have to tend to your nervous system like it's a garden.
You can't expect it to look after itself; if we were in ideal conditions, yes, but buddy we are NOT.
The soil needs feeding, weird thorns creep in, our tenderest things are vulnerable