re: age and watching CNN or another alphabet network...
I think it is just a matter of not having or being internet savvy. This affects folk that I don’t consider old... some of my son’s friends in their 40s do not do anything on the Internet except play games. Never moved and keep contact with friends with texting & phone. No desire need for FB or Twitter / Instagram etc.
They have TV on wall to wall. Network news is their way to stay “informed” and if they are really with it they subscribed to a newspaper.
sad but true
The "respectable" press dismissed then and dismisses now, all of it, as bigoted, xenophobic and paranoid rantings by a fringe. The internet allowed the fringe to grow.
I recall Bob White's Duck Book, Archibald Roberts and the Committee to Restore the Constitution, John Birch Society, and many others. Savage talking about the Samizdat.