Wow, John!  When do we get your blistering analysis of the lies and rubbish on the CIA-run Western Mass Media.?  And, yes, it is.  Not sure that I can provide links here but you can go to WIKI and look up:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee    for starters.
You are the classic illustration of seeing the speck of dust in your brother's eye and not the Sequoia pine in your own.  I never thought you, of all people, had the Cold War button installed.  How did that happen?
On the other hand, the TV and movie crowd are not so much progressive as debauched and damaged, so it makes sense. They come to believe their own lies about 'glamour' and 'celebrity'. You have not been immune. 
Stick to the gossipy, tinsely stuff.  You do not have the gravitas to handle the political Mass Media and the attached Disinformation Wars.