See also:  yellow journalism , McCarthyism, the anti drug propaganda from the 1960's to the present...  I'd argue that journalism has never been "objective" and has always been a tool of a corrupt state or ruling elite.

What's happening now is disillusionment.    Sometimes some people wake up to the fact that we've been lied to about *everything*.  It's just hard to let go of one's childhood fantasies about being on the good guys' team.

There are no good guys in government, religion, or media.