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Decades of propaganda...
This isn't a hypothetical after Watergate and Nixon having to resign they decided the issue was non biased reporting, so they started Fox News.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/roger-ailes-nixon-gawker-documents/352363/
The neoliberal movement is trying to replicate it, but Republicans have too much of a head start, they'll never catch up.
But by now billionaires already own all the media because both parties have been de-regulating journalism and corporations.