You are entirely correct - you only have to examine the end game of what the national socialist left and how everything they want has to be under the auspices of Government Control.
Consider on of their favorite games is to pretend that failed Socialist regimes are ‘Right wing’
(How do they do that you ask? By LIES and endlessly repeated talking points that don’t make logical sense)
In many large state universities, freshman and sophomore classes are now heavily tilted toward attendance online and on demand instead of attendance in person. As state finances become ever more burdened by public employee pension obligations, state funding of education will inevitably be under pressure. Within ten years a distinctively large slice of higher education will be delivered online to students who reside at home.
As comprehensive knowledge and skills testing validates that method of higher education, going away to college will become the domain of affluent and indulgent parents and limited to perhaps a final year or two. Competition between colleges and universities will force a trimming back of weak instructors and bad courses. The culture defining power of higher education will inevitably wane, reliant as it is on having student on campus and away from home.
As for the news media, the continuing decline of newspapers and network evening news will further weaken the power of the news media to set the agenda and terms of debate. Within an election cycle or two, a Republican Presidential candidate will take the Obama approach of treating the news media as dispensable and get away with it. When that happens, their power will be decisively diminished.