Absolutely true.
Media has morphed into simple minded propaganda.
A prime example of why....
People demand to read their bias confirmation or they will simply go somewhere else. Newspapers that were once moderately politically biased have now been consumed within their total bias. NYT subscriber base is 91% of those who identify themselves as democratic/left voters. Repeat....91%. Even if these papers wanted to be less biased, they are blackmailed by their mobs, aka subscriber, to either tow their line...or else.
Editor after editor and journalist have been torched by the mob, so now, there is nothing left in that paper but simple minded, single sided propaganda.
Rinse and repeat across all the media. You want to stay alive as a source? You want eyeballs? Click bait bullcrap and stay in your biased lane. Or else....
Which brings us....covid has pushed people further into news overdrive. Lives and deaths are on the line and we need to know. Wars always spike news hunger, but this war, this life and death is now in the neighborhood. Mr Cronkite, more please....
So.....between the recent political devide and covid, this news hunger is met with even more sources willing to do anything to get those eyeballs. If there is no story, invent one. It's not like you will be forced to reveal "sources". Make them up. Spin everything to serve the mobs bias. Make it sound good for your biased base, something they will swallow and you're good for a few cycle$.
But above all, the worst, the very worst, people blind bias is their normal and of course it's the others who are uninformed and unhinged. They have proof. Read their sources and you too will see the "truth".
And the media garbage flows....and the garbage swallowed...and the anger grows....and the devide widens....
25 New York Times Readership Statistics [The 2021 Edition]