Lol they fought tooth and nail against any change for a long time. Look at oxycontin in the US and how the FDA was complicit for like 20 years.

If you're taking literally the most surface level view possible, then sure.

But it doesn't at all reflect the actual realities of what led up to that happening.

This might be confusion over the word “authority,” with one including journalists and the other not.

Because the public was informed by the news. However, now that some are demonizing the the media or "The Main Stream Media" people trust it less.

This was properly done to prevent the public from being informed about bad actors.

>the public was informed by the news

--- inform (v.)

early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer, enformer "instruct, teach" (13c.) and directly from Latin informare "to shape, give form to, delineate," figuratively "train, instruct, educate," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + formare "to form, shape," from forma "form" (see form (n.)). In early use also enform until c. 1600. Sense of "report facts or news, communicate information to" first recorded late 14c. Related: Informed; informing.

Can you please state your argument along with pasting the definition?

Can you please state your argument along with pasting the definition? I dont