Social manipulation is the very reason that governments rarely turn on their media. Governments need some kind of communication with this "entity" because of the ability to disseminate information. The problem however, is that the media has become weaponized, and can effectively been seen as political hit men for hire, white washers, co-conspirators, and in some cases, as an offshoot of a shadow government. It is the media that doles out daily doses of malcontent, disillusionment, division and contempt... and we gobble it up daily... like addicts getting a fix from a pusher.