[–] ShinyVoater ago (edited ago)
60 years? The Great War was fought to Make The World Safe For Democracy(despite the Reichstag being a thing ever since Germany was unified, Russia being an absolute monarchy and the Allied powers keeping the vast majority of the world in chains) and as The War To End All Wars. The propaganda going on even forced people to change their names and got dachshunds abused.
We've (mostly) calmed down(and the hysteria from WWI produced such a backlash that nobody believed what Germany was up to until they saw proof), but it's the perfect demonstration of the power of the black and white worldview applied to armed conflicts.
[–] akuta ago
Yes, for 60 years at least (unless you're arguing that it's been going on longer than that; however, it's really a question of what you call modern media at that point). The difference being that there was no confusion that much of the propaganda released was very clearly from the government back then whereas nowadays (again, for about the last 60 years, as WWI occurred 100 years ago) it is obfuscated and presented as "unbiased private news"... which we know it's not.