This.

Media has always had an agenda, which even if meant in good faith is manipulativ.

Just speaking about newspapers:

• the topics are mostly chosen for the audience who can afford newspapers (= good/settled middle class)
• the journalists usually have a social background which allows for having unpaid internships and can afford to study journalism at university (e.g. rules out working class people)
• advertisement is a big (paid newspapers) or the only income source (‘free online news’)
  • this implies to not fuck around with the companies/people paying the advertisement
  • this implies also, to not fuck around with the world view of what your readers seem acceptable too much (less readers = less money for advertisement)
• newspapers are owned by rich people which also impacts what topics are covered or not
• newspapers have competition in search engines/internet etc. which they will fight / badmouth
• in Germany at least newspapers/their companies tried to fight adblockers and the peoples freedom to use adblockers in court - w/o making much noise about it. So, information damaging the newspapers reputation are willfully held back.
• every topic I have a little bit of knowledge about which is covered by so called specialists in newspapers is full of shit/wrong assumptions/lacks any kind of deeper understanding

Long story short: Everyone/everywhere has grown up consuming deeply manipulative content from media. Given the bullshit and propaganda we are getting each day by people with an agenda/on someones payroll, crazy hallucinations / generated content won’t make things worse than they are already.

Add to that ‘The Lamplighters Leage’ from HBS.

• Learn a proper tooth brushing technique (Bass, Stillman, etc.)
• Floss
• Strength training 2x a week
• Get some daylight every day
• Have great manners all the time
• Be nice and respectful to people around you (especially the ones you don’t benefit from)
• Read the classic books in literature and your field of work
• Get a hobby and follow it with discipline
• Go to the free health checkups that are provided to you
• Save early and regularly
• Plan your next day, week, month, year
• Have some fun and spent yourself from time to time on your own terms - YOLO ;-)

Best advice I ever got regarding this kind of things: Try it out and see where it goes! Play open, be honest and have fun! ;-)