Well, it started when Nixon posited that conservatives needed a republican news outlet to frame political problems in a way that always casted republicans in a good light, that way a media-landslide like Watergate wouldn’t happen again. Fox News was born, and has slowly been pushing our society into what it is now.
So, to answer your question, the snowball started rolling about 50 years ago.
In the scenario in your comment, that very same news network told a bunch of gullable, trained idiots that we are being invaded, in order to make republican policy look good.
Well, it started when Nixon posited that conservatives needed a republican news outlet to frame political problems in a way that always casted republicans in a good light, that way a media-landslide like Watergate wouldn’t happen again. Fox News was born, and has slowly been pushing our society into what it is now.
So, to answer your question, the snowball started rolling about 50 years ago.
In the scenario in your comment, that very same news network told a bunch of gullable, trained idiots that we are being invaded, in order to make republican policy look good.