When did the news got infiltrated by the left? What happened?

[McMitch]

When did people fucking forget that you don't conjugate the second verb in a past tense sentence?

A good chunk of the internet has become half-assed ESLs (or worse). In regards to people from once-literate cultures, a combination of auto-correct and simply not reading has rendered massive swathes of the population, ostensibly, functionally illiterate.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Did it? Marx was a journalist. Journalism is largely an egalitarian "forth estate" that coincides with the spread of democracy. It's always been left-coded, because before that, information was an exclusive privilege of clergy and the state.

 

[VisaMallgoth]

When the mass distribution of newspapers took hold, it correlated with public education starting around the same time. It became much easier and more convenient to control the flow of information compared to the mass printing of books, which required more of a time investment from the reader, something the average person couldn't afford.

 

[Dawdler]

This is When and how:

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.

foreignpolicy.com

Spoiler

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?