Controlling the flow of information about the war is as old as war.
Why would you expect anything different?
It’s why I don’t believe anything coming from either side.
“Both sides are heavily engaged in information warfare.”
Very true, both sides are gas lighting their devotees. I don’t care which side wins, just stop spending my tax money and supplies. We might need that for China.
Regards Ukraine: The political class follows the money, and the money wants Ukraine in the EU and NATO. Since this is true for the EU and US there is no dissent from over seas. The Republicans are reluctant to use this war in opposition politics like the Democrats did with Iraq starting in 2004. Because the media is mostly liberal and pro Democrat and Biden is a Democrat. What you end up with is an ENTIRELY one sided narrative.
Happy moral Ukrainian soldiers fighting for sovereignty and freedom, that are winning on all fronts. Evil Russians that have absolutely no reason for why they invaded, no one supports, and are losing on all fronts. Our MSM makes the WWII Wochenschau look like a factual and objective war report.
Yellow journalism is nothing new, but what is new are the handful of people in the media conglomerates, big tech, and government who essentially control 90% of what you read, see and hear. Instead of hundreds of sources you just have a few and they all sound the same, only pandering to the various folks with demographics: https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI
You only “feel” the way you do because you generally support Ukraine and like the news in that respect (affirmation), but in the bigger picture, may it be Covid, J6, the elections, this isn’t good. There are likely issues where you did not appreciate the bias and steering of the masses by a media and government, nor the fact that it’s getting to the point where on the bigger issues you essentially no longer have a public dialog rather a centralized steering of the people, not unlike in the former Soviet Union and how their media acted on all decisions handed down from their politburo.
You cannot have real freedom when you have control of what people know and think, when you can manipulate their perceptions and no longer allow for a market place of ideas pressing the censor/mute button on MDs that disagree, deplatforming, blocking oversea sites...