These are the three words we need to meme into existence:
"Journalism is Dead"
And it really is. Fake news and the nonstop clockbait have ruined the industry. But theres still a lot of nornies out there who listen to the news. However they are starting to loose trust. I see even my most liberal friends start to question certain bits of liberal news from time to time.
So let's push them over the edge.
Insult journalists and call then incompetent. Point out any hypocrisy in the news to your liberal friends. And the follow it with the words "Journalism is Dead".
Walter Duranty says hi.
The press has been pushing bullshit left narratives for generations. What's changed recently is that Twitter and the various Journo-lists have moved what their bubbles consider OK far into the insane propaganda zone. Any shred of self-questioning or restraint has been wiped away.
That and the fact that nearly everyone has a camera and the ability to distribute their video. It's a lot harder to frame the story your way when other people are showing what's out of frame.
The New York Times, the most "respectable" US paper for ages upon ages, published literal Stalinist propaganda denying mass murder and won the "respectable" Pulitzer Prize for it.
Your Golden Age fallacy has no basis in fact.
But they've been feeding off of the news services for a very long time. Even when a byline was by some local reporter, they were usually just regurgitating what the news wires were saying, but in their own words.
All that high-minded, high-school media class fluffery about "journalistic ethics" aside (the ideal is rarely the reality of any situation), the news outlets have always been subject to opinionistic "shading", whether from the editors themselves, or the pressure from advertisers (such as when two weeks of Bloom County was not shown in many newspapers because of a storyline that involved the victims of cosmetics testing.) It's just that the modern world, and the internet, has been tearing off all the clown masks off of all the bullshit humans sell to themselves.
It's just that, at one time, the media was skewed towards the status quo, or at least seemed to. Now the "counter-culture" of the mid-twentieth century has become "the establishment" without wanting to admit it.