Kinda.
Our “news” was full of propaganda during WWii.
Probably before.
And the only changes have been away from nationalism, to globalism.
Look back at the Cold War, weapons specifically.
The MIC kept us up nights eating Roll Aids over the planes, tanks, ships, subs, and warheads the Soviet Union had.
We now know that was a joke.
“Quantity has its own qualities”
Their quality was absent, performance was not as advertised.
We know that now,
The intelligence folks knew much of it then.
They all lied.
Partly to bleed Russia, largely to bleed US.
Hearst was notorious for using his newspapers to ruin people.
