There is really nothing new here except the power of the press is more and more concentrated. In the U.S. now 7 major corporations basically own the video, radio and print media.
A simple exercise that I have done with people in the past is to postulate that three different people are standing on a street corner and witness an accident. These three different people are pretty much going to say the same thing but in different ways through their individual perspective. They all saw the accident somewhat differently.
Now consider with the media we used to have three major networks of ABC, CBS and NBC and then CNN in 1980 made a forth. Fast forward a few years and Fox came on the scene and many others. Even sticking to the big 5 on any given story you will have at least 5 different anchors, each newscast has editors, producers, several on scene reporters, videographers, ect. On any given story you should have slightly different takes on it with some differences as there are hundreds of people involved.
And yet, regardless of what channel you might watch, print media or radio station the talking points and 'spin' are almost identical. Would be functionally impossible if every network and their people were independent and doing their own investigations and reporting. Instead it's almost boilerplate with Fox being the outlier but they also being corporate media have their own issues as well as we've seen in the last several months.
Today more than ever it's imperative that 'His sheep hear His voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow.'
A lot of strange voices today that do not speak the truth both secular and religious.