The media is a big business owned by special interest and wealthy elites. Obviously all the scare tactics used in the media did not work on the voters.

I think it was exactly the opposite.

I'm curious, I'd like to hear more =)

Our biggest newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, have huge political influence here. They were both strongly pro-Brexit, as was the Telegraph. They've also been anti-EU for decades.

That was my impression, thank you.