Yes, that doesn’t mean the corporate media doesn’t have a huge amount of influence due to their consolidation. Technical ability to communicate is not the only factor in power of reach. I’m not sure how else to explain it.

And yet, without any media support, civil rights leaders were able to effect change in the 60s.

Maybe people these days are just lazy?

Maybe they're just propagandized to death and don't know what they don't know.

Right because in the good old days, people weren’t propagandized to think it was dangerous for Black and White people to drink from the same water fountain or go to the same school, that gay people should go to jail (“anti-sodomy laws”) and that it’s a sin against God to allow interracial marriages (laws against miscegenation).

Not to mention the whole era of McCarthyism