That is not actually true
A great conservative Roger Ailes developed Fox News and that changed everything.
Fox News not only challenged the status quo bt over the years has whipped them at their own game. The Democrats are so fearful of Fox News they refuse to go on and be interviewed.
Meanwhile the conservative Republican president and several of his designees appear regularly delivering the message personally and unfiltered
“That is not actually true”
The media has been gone since at least Watergate, starting during the Vietnam War. But a lot of people didn’t notice until Fox came along to provide some contrast.