It's not about thinking it's a sinister plot, it's about realizing that the trusted local news anchors people watch every evening are just actors reading a script. There's very little actual journalism that goes on. These media whores get paid way too much money to sit in a chair and read a teleprompter every night. They don't care what they're reading. They're not journalists at all. Real journalists get their bank accounts closed, assaulted by antifa retards, if not assassinated. These media whores are just shitty actors who can only do one role. And of course people understand how this system works. If you understand it and don't think it can be used for nefarious purposes, you don't really understand it. It's a system like any other. If the stories being sent down the wire are propaganda, or are deliberately one-sided, or are picked up to fill time rather than focusing on actually important things happening that the public ought to know about, it's a problem. Garbage in, garbage out is a principle in journalism, programming, data science, and a million other fields for a reason.