Reminds me very much of Walter Lippmann's work, Public opinion, part of a time of his debate with Dewey on democracy's functions. This was in 1922 and he already emphasised the role of the media in validating existing worldviews in a sense. There's much to benefit from Lippmann's insights, one of which is this concept of psuedostructures we all construct and caricatures in those pseudostructures.

Philosphize This episode: https://youtu.be/6QJYsSJGR8I

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)