There have been a number of mass global mask-off watersheds in media in the last few decades. The early 2000's Olympics (suddenly the color Green was political). The 2008 Election (not Democrat? RACIST). The 2014 GamerGate scandal (no parenthesis needed). These were all accelerating and building from each other. But the beginning of the current peak of frothing, savage, unhinged political carpet bombing was the 2016 Election.

They built directly on the 2008 Democrat election tactic of creating a victim class, creating a golden icon of that class, raising it on a standard and demanding your worship and deference under pain of the sword. Their victory was a fait accompli and their defeat shook them right down to their shoes. They became "deranged" as we often point out and worked tirelessly and illogically with cultish single-mindedness to reassert their domination of culture and themselves as rightful determiners of human civilization's destiny.

This enabled them any measure and abolished any restraint. The "flyover" class stopped being rabble beneath them, but instead became their enemy to be crushed and paved over. Their friends in every form of media dutifully joined the holy crusade and self-righteously converted their entertainment channels into propaganda chutes.

Shitty Woke media has always been with us. But after 2018 it was literally all that was allowed to exist at any level, and all concerns of profit or viability vanished before the righteousness of their cause.