The control of the media really started gaining speed in the 1960s when a certain President Nixon had a media consultant named Roger Ailes and the two dreamed of creating a conservative news network that functioned as a Republican party clearing house. Roger Ailes later went on to be president of Fox News after of course working in the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations

It’s worth also remembering for anyone not alive and/or not aware that during that period Nixon was also a wannabe dictator and authoritarian and he attempted to rig his re-election and got caught when his associates broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate hotel.