The press has been doing this for the decades I have been watching. Historically the press’ record is poor as well. Most cities had two papers one hundred or even fifty years ago. They generally had the lies on each side so one needed both to get a rational picture.
Go back 200 years the press was particularly nasty but gentlemen always had recourse to “honor” and that may have tempered some of the stuff. The slander against Jefferson was resurrected 200 years later to exonerate BJ. Hearst’s yellow journalists actually did start the Cuban Spanish War.
The press have always been slimy vermin but only in the last 50 years have they all been libtard slimy vermin.
When I see “Guardian” I instantly dismiss their babble.
They make the Washington Pustule look semi-honest.
It is a sick degenerate society that outlaws dueling.
Even Aaron Burr was good for something :<}